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Open source licence violations manual published
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| Dutch software engineer Armijn Hemel has just published a manual on how to
| detect violations of open source software.
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| The GPL Compliance Engineering Guide details how to take apart bootloaders
| and firmwares, using tools such as Hexdump, Strings and Grep.
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| It even includes soldering instructions to attach a serial cable to a router,
| as sometimes that is the only way to get access to the system's software.
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| Hemel works at Loohuis, an IT consultancy in the city of Utrecht and is
| active in the GPL Violations project.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/86993,open-source-licence-violations-manual-published.aspx
Companies like McAfee are allegedly breaking the law.
Related:
McAfee's libel against open source
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| Someone at McAfee thinks that the correlation between botnets and open source
| is clear, but I am struggling to grasp any connection between the two.
| Perhaps this is just one more example of McAfee's dubious grasp on reality
| when it comes to open source. Remember its statement that open-source
| licensing is a threat to its business?
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9917989-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Why Are the Feds Still Gunning for McAfee's Former GC?
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| But things didn't quite work out that way. Eight years later, Roberts is
| preparing for his felony trial on two counts of mail fraud, one count of wire
| fraud, three counts of false Securities and Exchange Commission filings, and
| one count of falsifying books and records. If convicted on all seven counts,
| Roberts faces a maximum of 140 years in prison and more than $10 million in
| fines. He is also fighting a suit by the SEC for securities fraud and is a
| defendant with McAfee in two derivative suits over backdating. The SEC
| complaint called Roberts' repricing "a fraudulent scheme to enrich himself."
| Roberts pled not guilty to the criminal charges and denied the SEC
| allegations.
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| Roberts' attorney, Neal Stephens, a partner at Cooley Godward Kronish in Palo
| Alto, Calif., said that neither he nor Roberts would comment for this
| article. McAfee spokesman Joris Evers says, "McAfee does not discuss former
| employees."
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http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1200650739414
McAfee to pay $13.8 million to settle backdating lawsuits
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| McAfee has taken two major steps toward closing the stock-option backdating
| scandal that has plagued the company for the past two years.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071222/tc_infoworld/94209
We’re not thieves. We just can’t read contracts (McAfee and Open Source)
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| There is a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) spread about Free/Libre
| and Open Source (FLOSS) licenses. While companies dependant on older
| competing business models suggest these licenses are complex or “ambiguous”,
| the reality is quite the opposite.
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http://blogs.itworldcanada.com/insights/2008/01/11/we%E2%80%99re-not-thieves-we-just-can%E2%80%99t-read-contracts-mcafee-and-open-source/
http://tinyurl.com/39pjml
McAfee throws some FUD at the GPL
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| In its annual report, Windows security software vendor McAfee told its
| investors that open source software licence terms it vaguely characterised
| as " ambiguous" might "result in unanticipated obligations regarding our
| products."
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| [...]
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| That statement says several things. First, it reveals that McAfee does use at
| least some open source software derived code in its products. Second, it
| betrays that McAfee has misappropriated that open source software and thus is
| committing copyright infringement, because it doesn't distribute that open
| source software derivative source code. Third, by calling its products that
| include open source software code "proprietary", McAfee shows that it really
| doesn't want to shoulder its GPL licence obligations, but instead wants to
| both have its cake and eat it too.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/05/mcafee-throws-fud-gpl
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