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A community of FOSS lawyers?
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| Despite all that, the FOSS law community is
| still growing- which is a testament to the
| power of the collaborative model. To me,
| the heart of the test for 'are people a
| community' is 'can I call on a known group
| of people for help in a pinch, and would
| they feel comfortable doing the same of
| me.' In this informal, unstructured way,
| there is definitely a growing FOSS legal
| community of shared interests and
| relationships. When Mozilla started the MPL
| process I could list at least a half-dozen
| people who I knew would want to be involved
| and would give of their time. A few months
| in to the process, and the list is now much
| longer. This informal community- a diverse
| group including partners at high-profile
| law firms, counsels at FOSS-using
| companies, individual practitioners, and
| others like SFLC- was very helpful in
| laying the early groundwork for the MPL
| process, and has continued to be helpful as
| we've gotten further into it.
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http://opensource.com/law/10/3/community-lawyers
A small and unscientific exploration of OSS license use
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| I was intrigued by an excellent (as usual)
| post by Matthew Aslett of 451 group, titled
| âOn the fall and rise of the GNU GPLâ,
| where Matthew muses on the impact of cloud
| computing and other factors in the
| decreasing role of the GPLv2 versus other
| type of licenses. Simon Phipps twitted âyou
| only consider number of projects and not
| volume of deployed code.
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http://carlodaffara.conecta.it/?p=393
Recent:
Software patents
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| Iâve considered the arguments by Stallman,
| John Gruber, and Tim Bray on software
| patents, and I side with Stallman in that
| software patents are inherently problematic
| and are a net loss for society.
|
| The major difference in their arguments is
| that, while all three mention the realities
| and dysfunctions of the patent system,
| Stallman focuses strongly on the difference
| between what itâs intended to do and what
| actually happens. He also illustrates the
| reality of trying to develop any nontrivial
| software in a patent-filled landscape.
|
| [...]
|
| The lesson learned in this case is that
| although a claim may not explicitly and
| positively recite a structural element, the
| claim may require a specific structure to
| perform the steps of the claim. If that
| structure satisfies the machine prong of the
| machine-or-transformation test, an
| Examiner's 35 U.S.C. Â101 non-statutory
| subject matter rejection may be reversed
| under Bilski.
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http://www.marco.org/430351101
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