Red Hat Expands Legal Firepower
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| With Fontana's extensive experience with GPLv3, his hiring might signal a
| desire by Red Hat to adopt GPLv3 broadly.
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http://news.earthweb.com/dev-news/article.php/3732306
The recent taxopeprability BS (aimed at the EU, which carried on with the
considerable fine) means that Red Hat et al won't sign deals with Microsoft.
Bad news to the monopolist. Also of interest:
CTLR: Open Source Summit special issue
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| * "Innovation goes public", by Bruce Perens, a powerful speaker, a naturally
| creative thinker and a man who is so synonymous with the open source movement
| that he has all but trade marked it;
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| [...]
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| * "Commercial licensing models" by Jan Wildeboer (Solution Architect at Red
| Hat and a well known enemy of software patents);
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2008/03/ctlr-open-source-summit-special-issue.html
Related:
Mark Webbink On: The Patent Promise
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| This week, former Red Hat General Counsel, Mark Webbink, discusses how Red
| Hat’s patent promise was developed to combat patent trolling.
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http://truthhappens.redhatmagazine.com/2007/11/08/mark-webbink-on-the-patent-promise-2/#more-554
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
GPL3 welcomed by IBM, Red Hat, Novell, MySQL
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| The GPL is the most widely used license in the open-source realm. More
| than 30,000 projects, which is about 66 percent of the open-source
| projects tracked by the Freshmeat site, use the GPL.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/GPL3-welcomed-by-IBM-Red-Hat-Novell-MySQL/0,339028227,339279403,00.htm
A Quick Guide to GPLv3
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html
Red Hat CEO praises GPL 3 changes
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| Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik had words of encouragement
| Thursday for the Free Software Foundation's latest draft of General
| Public License version 3, an overhaul to a license that underlies
| the heart of Linux and many other open-source projects.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6171921.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
GPLv3 third draft: Linus likes it, ACT [Microsoft lobby] hates it
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| Simon Phipps, the chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems saw
| some positives in his first look at the new draft, describing an
| explicit explanation about software as a service in the license as
| a "welcome enhancement."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070328/tc_infoworld/87261
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