Sun to dangle prize money over open-source efforts
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| Sun Microsystems on Wednesday will release details of a new award program
| meant to spur growth and activity within the company's open-source efforts,
| according to a post by Sun's open-source officer, Simon Phipps, on his
| corporate blog.
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| "We'll be providing a substantial prize purse and working with the
| communities involved to develop the approach that works best," Phipps wrote.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/120407-sun-to-dangle-prize-money.html
This is not good news to Linux (maybe GNU also).
Getting Paid to Develop
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| We've got an exciting development bubbling that I hope to be able to announce
| in full detail at FOSS.IN in Bangalore on Friday when I speak there.
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http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/getting_paid_to_develop
And GPLv3 indeed has become a reality.
Sun fires a GPL3 warning shot
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| Ops Center aims at managing all of this, and the first version will only do
| that when it is released on January 8th. More interestingly, the source code
| will be put out on December 10 for those into messing around with low level
| details. To shake things up a lot more, at least some of it, the Common Agent
| Container, will be licensed under the GPL3. Won't that ruffle some feathers.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/04/sun-fires-gpl3-warning-shot
Another new PGLv3 conversion.
Centeris changes identity again
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| The name change coincides with a change of strategy and a new open source
| project, as the authentication software has been released under the GNU GPLv3
| license as Likewise Open.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/12/04/centeris-changes-identity-again/
Related:
GPL Project Watch List for Week of 11/30
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| Lastly, the GPLv2 or later count is now at 6286 GPLv2 or later projects, as
| compared to last weeks number of 6119 GPL v2 or later projects.
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http://gpl3.blogspot.com/2007/11/gpl-project-watch-list-for-week-of-1130.html
Free Software Foundation Releases GNU Affero General Public License Version 3
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| The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today published the GNU Affero General
| Public License version 3 (GNU AGPLv3). This is a new license; it is based on
| version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPLv3), but has an
| additional term to allow users who interact with the licensed software over a
| network to receive the source for that program. By publishing this license,
| the FSF aims to foster user and development communities around
| network-oriented free software.
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http://www.fsf.org/agplv3-pr
A Quick Guide to GPLv3
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html
Mark Webbink On: GPLv3
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| This week Mark Webbink, former Red Hat General Counsel discusses the GPLv3
| and talks about the limits of sharing, the mellowing out of Linus Torvalds,
| and issues with the LGPLv3.
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http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/10/26/mark-webbink-on-gplv3/#comments
Sun tiptoes into GPLv3
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| Sun Microsystems will release its xVM Ops Center virtualisation management
| application under the General Public Licence version 3 (GPLv3), the company
| revealed at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203486/sun-tiptoes-gplv3
Why does Microsoft seem scared of GPLv3?
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| Microsoft is extremely keen to avoid "legal debate" over whether its recent
| partnerships with Linux firms such as Novell, Xandros, and Linspire, mean
| Redmond must assume any of the new licenses' legal obligations.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Why-does-Microsoft-seem-scared-of-GPLv3-/0,130061733,339279673,00.htm
FSF Says GPLv3 Means Microsoft Patent Protection for All
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| Microsoft's covenant not to sue users of Novell's SUSE Linux
| Enterprise will be extended to all General Public License v3
| users as soon as Novell includes GPLv3 code within its Linux
| distribution, according to the Free Software Foundation.
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http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=E86B6EA6-EC51-43DF-A305-9939E5829EFC
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