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SCO vs. Linux: From the Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court
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The trial between the SCO Group and Novell over the question of whether or not the copyrights to Unix were sold together with the Unix distribution rights has taken another turn.
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Mozilla redrafts open-source licence
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Mozilla has announced plans to redraft the open-source licence underpinning projects such as Firefox.
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Is Your Support of Copyleft Logically Consistent?
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[...] However, it's ultimately hypocritical to claim support for a copyleft structure but oppose GPL enforcement. If you believe the license should have a legal requirement that ensures software is always distributed in software freedom, then why would you be surprised — or, even worse, angry — that a copyright holder would seek to uphold users' rights when that license is violated?
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Novell's Motion to Allow Evidence: SCO Opened the Door
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Yesterday, at the end of the day at the trial of SCO v. Novell, there was a discussion of whether certain evidence could be let in after all, due to something SCO said. Judge Ted Stewart asked Novell to put it in the form of a motion, and they have. SCO accused Novell in its opening argument four times of slander of title "to this day".
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OSFA joins OSI in refuting IIPA's attack on open source
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Open Source For America says that the IIPA's "Special 301" call against governments that support the use of open source is irresponsible and misleading in its portrayal of open source
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Why Would Anyone Develop for Software Patent Bullies?
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New reasons for developers and defenders of Apple to reconsider their position and stand up to Software Engineering, not patent racketeering
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The Patent War of All Against All
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"Glyn Moody has written a post about a system called U-Prove. Glyn notes that the software is being licensed under a BSD licence and notes that is a good thing, but then observes that there is a patent encumbrance on the code, and indicates this is a bad thing. In a comment, Sam Ramji refers off to this article of mine, kindly remarking it is a ‘good post’.
Read more »SCO Responds to Novell's Motion to Allow Evidence
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On Friday, at the trial in SCO v. Novell, SCO told the judge that they'd file their response to Novell's Motion to Allow Evidence on Monday. And so they have:Novell seeks to present evidence to the jury in the form of snippets of text selectively lifted from prior judicial opinions in this case.
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Judge Denies 2 Novell Motions: for Mistrial and to Allow Evidence
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It seems Novell moved for mistrial on March 15 at the trial in SCO v. Novell. And there has been a decision on Novell's motion to allow evidence. The docket doesn't yet reflect the order on the motion to allow evidence, but you can see that it happened in this, the full text of the order on the oral motion by Novell for a mistrial...
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Novell files Offer of Proof Re Prior Inconsistent Declaration of Sabbath
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Novell has filed a Notice of Filing of Offer of Proof Regarding Prior Inconsistent Declaration of Steven Sabbath. It is making a record that SCO was allowed to present testimony in direct examination that Novell knew was contradicted by deposition testimony, but then Novell couldn't tell the jury about it, because of rulings by the judge.
Read more »Skype publishes SILK audio codec source code
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Skype has announced that it has published the source code for its SILK audio codec, introduced last year, which the company uses in its internet telephony applications for Windows and Mac OS X
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Week 2, Day 7 of SCO v. Novell Trial - More McBride and Botosan Opens a Door
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Chris Brown was in the courtroom for us today. It was all Darl McBride today, and there also was some sparring over SCO expert, Christine Botosan, he reports. It looks like the jury will be hearing about Judge Dale Kimball's ruling after all, because Novell intends to ask her about what happened to the stock when he issued his rulings. And there will be more Darl tomorrow.
Read more »Squeak 4.0 released - now under MIT/Apache license
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Four years of collecting agreements from numerous contributors has allowed the Squeak Smalltalk environment to be re-licensed as MIT/Apache code
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On the fall and rise of the GNU GPL
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In preparation for my presentation at OSBC tomorrow I’ve been looking back at some of the key trends that influenced the commercial open source landscape in 2009. One of those is the decline in the use of the GNU GPL as a proportion of all open source projects.
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