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Axon II Microcontroller and Open Source Library
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| John Palmisano of the Society of Robots
| writes with news of the Axon II
| microcontroller, and a matching software
| library designed specifically for robotics.
| The board is about 2.5 inches square (even
| though it looks 12 stories tall in the
| animated 3D tour above!)
|
| [...]
|
| The WebbotLib software library is written in
| C and licensed under the GNU GPL.
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http://robots.net/article/2958.html
Rockwell Automation sponsors release of open-source software stack
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| Open-source EtherNet/IP communication
| stack developed by the Vienna University
| of Technology cost effectively connects
| I/O devices.
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http://www.controlengeurope.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=30113
eDoorways Engages Top Open Source Developer DPCI to Assist With Platform's Acceleration to Web 3.0
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| DPCI, an interactive technology agency which
| delivers integrated content management
| solutions, has agreed to assist eDoorways in
| converting the company's Internet platform to
| Drupal, an Open Source Content Management
| System written in PHP and distributed under
| the GNU General Public License.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0566615.htm
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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