"They've taken a community-developed kernel module and have modified it, and then released the result as a binary-only kernel module without including the source or at least posting an offer to obtain the source to the kernel module," wrote morgan_greywolf on Slashdot. "That's a direct letter violation of the GPL. Sounds like the author of asus_acpi has a lawsuit

A group of die-hard OS/2 users are petitioning IBM--again--to release the operating system's source code as open-source. The question may not be whether IBM wants to do so... but if it can.

It turns out there were two patent cases filed by the Niro Scavone firm on Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Florida. The first was the Scott Harris/James Parker case I wrote about yesterday. The second was none other than the Global Patent Holdings JPEG patent! Adam Heffner again acted as local counsel to Ray Niro. Interestingly, all 7 defendants are Florida corporations. Is Acacia preparing for patent reform by filing in jurisdictions that make sense? Are they planning to sue more companies, in more of the 94 judicial districts?

"Funambol might be known for what they call their “open source mobile email & PIM sync solution,” but now they're going to be celebrated as being the “first major open source software company” to adopt the AGPLv3 license..."

As the date for the February BRM (Ballot Resolution Meeting) on ISO/IEC JTC1 DIS 29500 (a/k/a Ecma 376, a/k/a Microsoft OOXML) approaches, more and more attention is being paid to how Ecma will propose the disposition of the comments submitted during the general voting period. This level of heightened interest is legitimately urgent, due to both the great number of the comments that need to be resolved

The Software Freedom Law Center, provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), today announced that it has settled the GPL violation lawsuit filed on behalf of BusyBox developers Erik Andersen and Rob Landley against Xterasys Corporation.

The next time you're talking about the standardization and the International Organization for Standardization comes up, be sure to pronounce it as "Iso" and not "I-S-O."

"...'This case is over and interoperability won. The European Court made clear that interoperability information should not be kept secret and the agreement shows that Microsoft saw no way to continue its obstruction of interoperability in this area. This establishes a standard which everyone will have to meet from now on,' summarizes Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)..."