EU Parliament votes today on new IP laws
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| The European Parliament's committee for legal affairs meets today
| to vote on proposals for criminal penalties to be imposed on
| those who infringe intellectual property (IP) rights.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/30/vote_meps/
The above is similar to the issue of detection plagiarism, without using DRM
to prevent it.
Open Source License Compliance
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| With developers freely downloading potentially hundreds of
| open source components per week, with or without their
| employer's permission, an automated software compliance
| management solution is necessary to establish and managel
| icense compliance policies across the enterprise
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http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=8158
Related:
Squiz bows to GPL pressure
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| Squiz's statement also claimed the GPL decision illustrated that the
| open source development model could be followed as a successful
| commercial strategy -- instead of the traditional development
| paradigm which requires source code to be kept private and sold for a fee.
|
| "Looking ahead, instead of licensing fees, we will continue to
| sell support services which include warranty, help-desk support
| and uptime guarantees to organisations that need this level of
| certainty, whilst other MySource Matrix users can choose to develop
| and support the product for themselves if that is what they prefer,"
| Squiz director and co-founder Steve Barker said.
|
| Squiz claims around 100 staff located throughout Australia, New
| Zealand and England.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Squiz_bows_to_GPL_pressure/0,130061733,339273081,00.htm?feed=rss
http://tinyurl.com/yhupvc
German GPL defender claims legal victory
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| Open-source programmer Harald Welte said Thursday he won a civil court
| case in Germany centered on the General Public License (GPL). The license
| governs many open-source projects and permits anyone to use software
| covered by it, but requires that companies incorporating GPL software
| make the underlying source code available.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6113453.html?part=rss&tag=6113453&subj=news
GPL, BSD, and NetBSD - why the GPL rocketed Linux to success
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| So while the BSDs have lost energy every time a company gets involved,
| the GPL'ed programs gain every time a company gets involved. And that
| explains it all.
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http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2006/09/01/#gpl-bsd
gpl-violations.org project prevails in court case on GPL violation by D-Link
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| D-Link Germany GmbH, a subsidiary of D-Link Corporation, Taiwan R.O.C.,
| distributed DSM-G600, a network attached storage (NAS) device which uses a
| Linux-based Operating System. However, this distribution was incompliant
| with the GNU General Public License (GPL) which covers the Linux Kernel and
| many other software programs used in the product.
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http://gpl-violations.org/news/20060922-dlink-judgement_frankfurt.html
GPL Successfully Defended in German Court
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/23/1655248
Wallace's Appeal Firmly Rejected - GPL Has Nothing to Fear [pdf]
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| PJ: "Just so you know, Daniel Wallace's appeal of the ruling
| against him in his pro se quest to overthrow the GPL on antitrust
| grounds, one of SCO's daydreams too, has been firmly rejected by
| the appeals court, as I knew it would be."
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http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/WallaceAppealRejected.pdf
The Devil In The Code: Vendors Vet For Open-Source Compliance
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| A pair of software companies, Black Duck Software and Palamida, aim to
| alleviate compliance headaches with applications that automatically vet
| code for open-source contributions.
|
| [...]
|
| Palamida won't disclose the size of its customer base, but Black Duck
| has attracted 200 customers plus investments from Intel Capital, Red
| Hat and SAP Ventures. Levin said demand is particularly strong for
| Black Duck's SMB-focused hosted service, which enables developers to
| essentially rent Black Duck's platform and check their code over the
| Web.
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http://www.channelweb.com/sections/allnews/article.jhtml?articleId=195200007&cid=ChannelWebNews
How GPL fits in with the future of antitrust regulation
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| Perhaps when the court boldly declared that "the GPL and open-source
| software have nothing to fear from the antitrust laws," the justices
| could be heard singing the Dire Straits' song Money for Nothing
| under their breath--as people can use Linux for free to make money
| in their business ventures. (They only are precluded from charging
| for making derivative works.)
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http://news.com.com/How+GPL+fits+in+with+the+future+of+antitrust+regulation/2010-7344_3-6137894.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
http://tinyurl.com/yfvdue
Copyright and Linux, GPL patent issues: part 2
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| By allowing developers to copy code for compatibility or
| interoperability purposes, courts separate the value of
| creating new works from the value inherent in existing
| ones. Courts in other countries have recognized this type
| of adaptive work for many years. As discussed earlier,
| markets place a value on software based in part on its
| compatibility and interoperability and its adoption by
| previous consumers, and not just the aesthetic beauty of
| its source code expression or the relative effort of its
| developers.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;291094571;fp;2;fpid;3
You change the World 2.0
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| They even tried to bend it to somehow impose their control over
| it and make it their own, like Microsoft is trying to these days,
| but they fail because of another novelty, a "License 2.0" if you
| will (even though the license's new version is actually the third
| one), the GNU GPL legal shield being revised today in a true 2.0
| fashion, through an open and cooperative process.
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http://www.libervis.com/you_change_the_world_2_0
BT says 'enough' on GPL
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| BT has published much of the relevant code here and clearly believes
| it has done more than enough to comply with the GPL.
|
| But the Free Software Foundation Europe remains unimpressed.
|
| They told us: "Armijn Hemel of gpl-violations.org analysed the
| source code and said that some of the necessary code is missing.
| For example, a top level Makefile and the scripts that would be
| used to properly generate a firmware image have not been included.
| A script or file with the uClibc configuration is also mandatory.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/29/bt_says_enough_gpl/
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