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New binary analysis tool finds FOSS in device firmware
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| The most popular copyleft license, the GNU
| General Public License (GPL), has become a
| powerful enabler of collaboration, but a
| growing number of companies fall afoul of its
| requirements. Bradley Kuhn, the technical
| director of the Software Freedom Law Center
| (SFLC) revealed last year that he finds an
| average of one new GPL violator every day. A
| GPL violation constitutes copyright
| infringement and puts the violator in a
| position where they risk having their license
| to use the software terminated. The SFLC and a
| handful of other organizations such as gpl-
| violations.org, attempt to educate companies
| about GPL compliance and help them conform
| with the requirements of the license.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/2010/04/tool-sniffs-oss-binaries-for-sweet-smell-of-license-compliance.ars
Recent:
How does GPL licensing affect projects that don't involve linking/compiling?
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| This is a question that I've been trying to
| figure out for a while already.
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| I'm working on a php project that I will
| distribute (or whatever word you want to use)
| under the terms of the Affero GPLv3.
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http://maratux.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-does-gpl-licensing-affect-projects.html
French court hands GPL victory
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| It's the reason why Microsoft's Steve Ballmer calls
| Linux viral. But French courts obviously think it has
| merit because the GNU General Public Licence has been
| upheld in a court of appeals in France.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28000/1090/
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