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Open source compliance: know your obligations
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| One key element of open source compliance
| is to know your obligations. There is a
| lot of confusion about what open source
| means exactly and some people believe that
| open source means you can do whatever you
| want. While open source grants users many
| freedoms, open source code comes under
| specific license terms which often include
| obligations that have to be followed by
| companies distributing open source
| software.
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https://fossbazaar.org/content/open-source-compliance-know-your-obligations
Are the Creative Commons Licences Valid?
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| As readers of this blog will doubtless
| know, Richard Stallman's great stroke of
| genius at the founding of the GNU project
| was to use copyright when crafting the GNU
| GPL licence but in such a way that it
| undermined the restrictive monopoly
| copyright usually imposes on users, and
| required people to share instead.
|
| That so-called copyleft approach has
| allowed a vast and thriving ecosystem to
| arise, but one that depends critically on
| the validity of the GNU GPL. If the GPL
| were shown to be unenforceable, then its
| terms would be void, and free software
| would have some problems. For that reason,
| every time somebody is threatened with
| legal action for allegedly violating the
| GPL, lawyers' hearts beat a little faster
| at the prospect of a definitive ruling on
| whether it is valid or not.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=3065
The Linux Foundation Delivers New Licensing Terms, Testing Tools for Accessibility Interfaces
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| AccProbe uses IAccessible2 platform
| services to assist developers in
| discovering and correcting code problems
| in their Windows applications. It was
| developed in Eclipse by IBM and donated to
| The Linux Foundation's Open Accessibility
| Workgroup.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-linux-foundation-delivers-new-licensing-terms-testing-tools-for-accessibility-interfaces-2010-07-06?reflink=MW_news_stmp
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