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The Free Software Way, by Richard Fontana, Esq.
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| I thought I'd introduce you to the
| website's rich content by posting an
| article from the Law section. It's by
| Richard Fontana, who is Red Hat's Open
| Source Licensing and Patent Counsel, and I
| know him and trust him from being on the
| committee that he chaired in the revision
| of GPLv3. I can republish his article,
| because it's under a Creative Commons
| license, Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
| Unported, which means you are free to
| republish it and share it with others under
| those terms as well. I think you'll want
| to, because he explains very clearly the
| legal rights that are implied by free, not
| just open source, software, and its
| extension to other areas, and why open
| source, while necessary, is not enough.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100126135326412
covered here:
The Free Software Way
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| There have been lots of âfauxpen sourceâ
| efforts to pretend they are Open Source by
| simply exposing source code. Iâm sure the
| Gentle Reader will be shocked that
| Microsoft leads the way in âinnovatingâ
| here: Shared Source, the MS-LPL and MS-LRL
| licenses, âcovenantsâ not to sue sub-sets
| of users and so forth.
|
| To me, then, open source is not a
| development methodology, let alone a
| distillation of broadly-applicable
| principles seen as underlying such a
| methodology. Rather, open source is a
| specific legal model of property rights
| transfer. To put it differently, open
| source is about freedom to use, modify,
| and share creative material that could
| otherwise be severely legally
| restricted by the author. (Source code
| availability is relevant because
| otherwise the freedom of modification
| would be practically impossible to
| exercise.)
|
| This encapsulates so well the failure of
| the term âOpen Sourceâ: if open source is
| about freedom, then say it. Call it âFree
| Softwareâ. At least call it âFree and Open
| Sourceâ or âFLOSSâ or âFOSSâ or something
| that acknowledges that Freedom is what it
| is really all about.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/01/the-free-software-way/
Recent:
European Parliament To Restart The Workgroup On Open Source Software
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| A number of members of the European
| Parliament are about to start an informal
| cross-party working group on 'New Media,
| Free and Open Source Software and Open
| Information Society'. The intergroup is
| expected to begin in February 2010, with the
| support of the European People's Party
| (EPP), the Alliance of Liberals and
| Democrats (Alde) and the European Greens.
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http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/32905
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