Wednesday, December 19, 2007

2007 Top Ten Free and Open Source Legal Issues

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The year 2007 has been the most active year for legal developments in the history of free and open source (“FOSS”). In fact, you would have ...
Monday, December 17, 2007

BusyBox Settles Second GPL Suit

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The Software Freedom Law Center ("SFLC") has settled a second BusyBox sofware lawsuit. The settlement for Xterasys is confidential...
Monday, December 10, 2007

Paying Developers: A New Way to Develop Community

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In Bangalore at FOSS.IN, Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystem's open source guru, announced on Friday that Sun will be establishing an "aw...
Sunday, December 9, 2007

BusyBox Files Lawsuit against Verizon to Enforce the General Public License

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On Thursday, BusyBox, through the Software Freedom Law Center ("SFLC") filed a new lawsuit to enforce the General Public License (...
Sunday, November 25, 2007

Software Freedom Law Center Files Second Round of Enforcement Actions for BusyBox Software

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The Software Freedom Law Center ("SFLC") has filed a second round of lawsuits to enforce the General Public License ("GPL...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Free Software Foundation Announces Final Affero General Public License

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One of the most contentious issues during the drafting of the General Public License Version 3 was whether to add an obligation to make sour...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Oracle Announces 1,500 Customers for Its Unbreakable Linux

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One of the concerns about the open source business model has been the risk that third parties provide support for a company's product an...