"Dear Mr. Stallman,
I am writing to express my disappointment with the Free Software Foundation regarding the recent release of the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3..."
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licenses upgraded to GNU FDL 1.3+
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"The licenses of the GNU coding standards and maintainer documents have been upgraded to GNU FDL version 1.3 or later. Other GNU documentation using the FDL should do the same at the next release..."
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Microsoft Has A Problem: Software Patents Go Up In Smoke
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Just read over at groklaw about a ruling made last night by the US Appeals Court. According to it, the patents granted for business practices would have to undergo specific and stringent testing procedures to check the worthiness of granting a patent to it.
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ACTA: More Patent Trolls, Less Democracy
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Behind the ACTA stands the “copyrights cartel,” as Dan Gillmor refers to it. It’s obvious what the problem is (or is not). What’s lesser known, however, is the impact which these abominable laws can have on patent trolls and their victims.
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Enormously important news from the Free Software Foundation
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"...This change would now permit interoperability among Free Culture projects, just as the dominance of the GNU GPL enables interoperability among Free Software projects. It thus eliminates an unnecessary and unproductive hinderance to the spread and growth of Free Culture..."
Richard Stallman deserves enormous credit for enabling this change to occur..."
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Wikipedia/CC news: FSF releases FDL 1.3
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"...This is a crucial step toward de-fracturing the free (culture) as in (software) freedom world, which should have the impact of greatly accelerating the growth of that world. Last December the Wikimedia Foundation requested that the FSF make this step..."
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FDL 1.3 FAQ
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"The Free Software Foundation released on November 3, 2008. This FAQ addresses questions that people may have about why we have released this new version of the license, and how it relates to FDLv2..." -- via SFLC Helps Draft FDL 1.3
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FSF Releases New Version of GNU Free Documentation License
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"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Monday, November 3, 2008 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the release of version 1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL). This version of the license allows public wikis to relicense their FDL-covered materials under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 3.0 license..."
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Firefox Removes its License Agreement From Ubuntu
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Mozilla received a lot of criticism from OS community for bundling EULA with Firefox builds. Even though they decided to remove EULA, earlier Ubuntu Ibex alpha builds still had the old EULA on.
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Business Methods Patents Die, Are Software Patents Next?
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The Bilski decision is out and it's a big step for eliminators of software patents
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FSFE's antitrust victory with Samba
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FSFE's role in the antitrust case was to ensure that free software developers would be able to use any interoperability information that Microsoft would be forced to publish.
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Status of FSFE's legal dept: FTF
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After 2 years of operation, FSFE's Shane Coughlan has built a legal network of 145 experts, has organised the first European conference for free software legal issues, and worked on GPL enforcement and producing documentation. For the curious, here's a general status report.
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ASUSTek is committed to meet the requirements of the GNU General Public License
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The open source code for EeePC is available here. To download the source code of all open source software packages that are included in the product, follow the steps listed below.
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What to Make of Nokia… Regarding Licences, Patents, and Formats
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Novell’s Michael Meeks Gets Software Patent from the UK
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Novell is still accumulating software patents, no matter the location of its developers
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