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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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