Software patents in India occupy a contentious and indeterminate legal space. While recent amendments to the Patent Act have sought to bring our law in conformity with WTO-mandated standards, these amendments have shied from pronouncing conclusively on the patentability of software.
Read more »Invitation to The National Public Meeting on Software Patents
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A New Groklaw Feature - Erwan's Archive Explorer
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We have, thanks to Erwan, a new search feature on Groklaw. He calls it Archive Explorer, and its purpose is to help you find articles more quickly than just by looking down the chronological list on our Archives page. It also helps you find articles linked from our permanent pages. In other words, by topic.
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How To Avoid Becoming a Defendant in a BusyBox or Any GPL-Related Lawsuit
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The Software Freedom Law Center last month released a guide to help businesses avoid compliance issues with the GPL and LGPL, "Practical Guide to GPL Compliance". The purpose of the guide is to help businesses avoid litigation over the GPL.
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FSFE to make legal consolidation tool available in 10 languages
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"The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) announced today that it plans to make the Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA) available ten languages. The selected languages are English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Serbian, Polish, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese..."
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File sharing is not illegal
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RMS: « Another federal court ruled that file sharing does not violate copyright law.
I am concerned that Leahy's nasty law could change this »
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Patent Office on Strike
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RMS: « Staff at the European Patent Office went on strike accusing the organization of corruption: specifically, stretching the standards for patents in order to make more money.
Read more »An Interview With Pamela Jones, Founder and Editor of Groklaw
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Pamela Jones, better known as PJ, started Groklaw, a web site devoted to covering and explaining legal cases in the news of interest to the Free Software and Open Source communities.
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Canonical Opens Codec Sales and Potential Can of Worms
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This week, Canonical opened sales of legal multimedia codecs and DVD playback software to all Ubuntu users, regardless of whether the distribution was pre-installed on a purchased system or downloaded gratis from an Ubuntu mirror.
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RIAA using a fraudulent accusation
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RMS: « The RIAA is using a fraudulent accusation to threaten the main lawyer that defends the RIAA's victims. »
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Will patenting take the byte out of IT here?
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“Patenting is an expensive and tedious process. The challenge for every programmer would be to verify each time, to see if any two lines of his code would infringe upon a patent. In the U.S., a single verification can cost as much as $5,000. The fundamental issue is that if I arrive at anything independently, should I not use it only because someone had got it patented before me?”
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Thank you SGI, for freeing the GNU/Linux 3D desktop!
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In January of 2008, software code at the heart of GNU/Linux 3D applications was discovered to be non-free—a potential disaster for free software advocates hoping to see advanced graphical acceleration now common on modern operating systems.
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Mozilla Comes Through!
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Here's a screenshot of the latest language from Mozilla, and as you'll see, they absolutely have listened to the community's EULA concerns (if you click on the image, it gets larger).
Read more »SGI Frees OpenGL Contributions!
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. (Sept. 19, 2008) — As software developers the world over prepare to mark the 25th anniversary of the GNU System, Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SGIC) today announced it is releasing a new version of the SGI Free Software License B.
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Firefox 3.0.2 coming next week fixing EULA
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As I reported yesterday, Mozilla has admitted that the Firefox EULA was flawed.
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Open Document Formats finally default for Yale Law School A2K Conference
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The Yale Law School's Access to Knowledge Conference kicks off in the International Conference Center of Geneva, Switzerland... Open Document Formats have finally become the default document format for presentations.
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