Pentaho, a maker of open business intelligence (BI) software, is moving away from the Mozilla Public License for its BI product. The company announced this month that Version 2 alpha, as well as subsequent versions of its Pentaho BI platform, will be released under the GNU GPL Version 2 license.
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Black Duck Software Marks the One-Year Anniversary of GPLv3 with an Examination of Trends in Use
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Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, marked the first anniversary of the release of version three of the open source GNU General Public License (GPLv3) with a study of trends in its use.
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Cognex Invalidates Acacia Patent '524; Next? Suing for Business Defamation
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Do you remember back in 2005 a company called Cognex took on Lemelson Partnership and won, invalidating 14 of Lemelson's patents? Well, it turns out that after that, they took on Acacia Research, and they just beat them too. Acacia is now minus one of its patents.
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Deposition challenges Trend Micro patent on virus scans
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Goran Fransson, a Swedish developer and entrepreneur, has given a deposition in the Barracuda-Trend Micro case that appears to seriously undermine Trend Micro's patent on gateway virus scanning.
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MPAA: We Don't Need No Stinking Evidence!
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You get some positive news, such as the Amicus brief filed by the EFF and others in the Jammie Thomas case, which could net her a new trial. But also on Friday, the MPAA filed its own brief, one which basically says it feels evidence isn't necessary in the case of one of its copyright infringement trials.
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Trend Micro’s SCO-esque Business Model Backfires, Acacia Sued for Defamation
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Those who abuse the patent system appear to be suffering significant setbacks
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Microsoft ODF workshop
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As you know, Microsoft has recently announced support for ODF in the next service pack for Office (SP2 for Office 2007, expected to be released in the first half of 2009). In conjunction with that announcement, we would like to invite all members of the OASIS OpenDocument Format TC and subcommittees to a 1-day DII workshop on how Office will support ODF.
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GPL Project Watch List for Week of 06/20/08
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The GPL v3 Watch List is intended to give you a snapshot of the GPLv3/LGPLv3 adoption for June 14th through June 20th, 2008.
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It’s Launched! Now use it!
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What is the field which you create in (photography, writing, movies, music, etc)? Do you want to read stories and interviews of people who produce similar content and release it under a CC license? We now have many such writeups on the Case Studies page. As you will see, that page and all of the case studies linked from it, are in a wiki.
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European Patent Office issued fewer patents in 2007
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Last year, the European Patent Office (EPO) issued far fewer patents than in 2006. The Munich patent authorities have announced that they approved exactly 54,699 patent applications for commercial protection, 12.9 per cent fewer than in the previous year.
Read more »A Sun Update on the NetApp Litigation
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Recently, I did an update on the Sun/NetApp litigation, but now there is something better, an update by Matt Dillon, Sun's General Counsel. What a great name for a lawyer. He says thank you to all who helped with prior art: After NetApp sued Sun, we responded with six reexamination requests on the patents asserted by NetApp.
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Transcript of the June Bankruptcy Hearing and SCO MOUs
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SCO has filed two two monthly operating reports, one for SCO Group and one for SCO Operations. This is like watching water drain from a slow tub. Also the transcript of the June 17 hearing is now available. And Dorsey & Whitney have submitted another bill going back to April.
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The low-down on Open Source Law
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Open Source Law founder, Brendan Scott, discusses the legal implications of FOSS in Australian government and enterprise organisations.
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How "Ignorant of Standards" was Microsoft Really?
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But I thought that it might be useful to pause to share the "Huh?" that I experienced when I stumbled across this article by Andrew Donoghue at ZDNet while enjoying a brief respite of laptop connectivity in the lobby of a hotel. The article is titled, "Microsoft admits to standards ignorance pre-OOMXL" and is based on an address by Microsoft national technology officer Stuart McKee.
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SA Minister Slams Software Patents
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The South African minister of public service and administration on Monday addressed the opening of the Idlelo 3 free software conference in Dakar Senegal, saying software patents posed a considerable threat to the growth of the African software sector.
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