GPL Project Watch List for Week of 03/07
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| We have already seen that the GPL v3 has made its mark on project licenses,
| but we are now curious to see if it will continue to grow. If adoption
| continues at this rate, it make start a snowball effect since it will become
| more convenient to license under GPL v3 for compatibility.
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http://gpl3.blogspot.com/2008/03/gpl-project-watch-list-for-week-of-0307.html
Interesting comment from Stallman:
Re: MAINTAINERS file
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| That is completely backwards. The free software movement is a
| political cause, not a technical one. "Choose based on technical
| criteria first of all" is the opposite of what we say.
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg00635.html
And indeed, it's not just technology. It's freedom. It's real competition, not
exploitation and price-fixing.
Impossible thing #3: Free art and the Creative Commons culture
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| A new conventional wisdom began to spring up around free software, led in
| part by theorists like Eric Raymond, who were interested in the economics of
| free software production. Much of this thought centered around service-based
| and other ancillary sales for supporting free software. Based on this kind of
| thinking, it’s fairly easy to imagine extending free licensing ideas to
| utilitarian works. But what about aesthetic works?
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/impossible_thing_4_capitalizing_community_enterprises_blender_and_orange_and_peach_movie_pro
Days ago:
OpenOffice.org goes to LGPLv3
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| You may recall that a team from Sun devoted a great deal of time to the
| process of drafting the GPLv3. Our engagement was not just the monitoring
| exercise that I suspect it was for many of the corporate participants. It was
| always my hope that Sun would use the license for significant software
| projects.
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http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/openoffice_org_goes_to_lgplv3
Related:
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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