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[News] dGB Dabbles in GNU GPL Licensing

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dGB starts âOpen Seismic Repositoryâ

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| In September 2009 dGB released OpendTect v4.0, 
| the first complete open source seismic 
| interpretation system, under a triple 
| licensing policy: 1) under the GNU / GPL 
| license, 2) under a commercial license and, 3) 
| under an academic license. The new release and 
| the changed licensing model have been very 
| well received by the seismic community. In 
| just three months time the OpendTect community 
| has grown exponentially while the software was 
| downloaded more than 7500 times. 
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http://www.oilandgaseurasia.com/news/p/2/news/6197


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:
|
|  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.
|
|  ...
|
|  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
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