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OpendTect is Now Completely Free
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| Henceforth OpendTect is released under a triple
| licensing strategy: 1) under the GNU / GPL license, 2)
| under a commercial license and, 3) under an academic
| license. Under the GNU / GPL license, OpendTect is
| completely free-of-charge, including for commercial
| use. The commercial license enables the user to extend
| the system with (closed source) commercial plugins that
| can either be purchased or leased. Under the academic
| license agreement universities can get free licenses
| for OpendTect and commercial plugins for R&D and
| educational purposes.
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http://www.oilandgaseurasia.com/news/p/2/news/5731
GPL wins in French court case
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| An appeals court in Paris has upheld the ruling from a
| lower court, which found that the French firm Edu4 had
| violated the GNU General Public License (GPL). The
| plaintiff was the French Organisation Association
| franÃaise pour la Formation Professionnelle des Adultes
| (AFPA), an umbrella organization for adult education.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/145835
Paris Court of Appeals condemns Edu4 for violating the GNU General Public License
http://fsffrance.org/news/article2009-09-22.en.html
An eye on network security
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| Cyberoam iView is available to download from
| SourceForge and is released under the GNU General
| Public License (GPL). Support for additional devices,
| applications and systems is expected to be added in the
| next few months.
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http://www.h-online.com/security/An-eye-on-network-security--/news/114300
Recent:
Big Win for GNU GPL in France
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| One of the fallback positions for purveyors of FUD is that
| the GNU GPL may not be valid, because it hasn't been
| properly tested in court. That's getting increasingly
| implausible as a stance. After being upheld in Germany a
| few times, here's a big decision in its favour in France:
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| In a landmark ruling that will set legal precedent, the
| Paris Court of Appeals decided last week that the company
| Edu4 violated the terms of the GNU General Public License
| (GPL) when it distributed binary copies of the remote
| desktop access software VNC but denied users access to its
| corresponding source code. The suit was filed by
| Association pour la formation professionnelle des adultes
| (AFPA), a French education organization.
|
| ...
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| The events of the case go back to early 2000, when Edu4
| was hired to provide new computer equipment in AFPA's
| classrooms. Shortly thereafter, AFPA discovered that VNC
| was distributed with this equipment. Despite repeated
| requests, with mediation from the Free Software Foundation
| France, Edu4 refused to provide AFPA with the source code
| to this version of VNC. Furthermore, FSF France later
| discovered that Edu4 had removed copyright and license
| notices in the software. All of these activities violate
| the terms of the GNU GPL. AFPA filed suit in 2002 to
| protect its rights and obtain the source code.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/09/big-win-for-gnu-gpl-in-france.html
The GPL Wins Again - Welte vs. Skype Technologies SA (Germany)
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| Well, today was the hearing, and Welte reports that one of the judges told
| Skype's lawyer that if a copyright owner wants a publisher to publish his
| book in a green envelope, it might seem odd to the publisher, but he can't
| publish without the green envelope. In short, don't touch the GPL code if you
| don't follow the requirements of the license.
|
| Like it or lump it. I think that's how one would translate into English the
| judge's mindset.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080508212535665
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