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Tag Archives: GPL
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Standards Netherlands helps Denmark with open IT The Industry Standard The Dutch government has provided Denmark with information regarding the Dutch national plan Heemskerk for open government IT. In Denmark, there is heated debate about the approach for open IT … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Open Source Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL? ZDNet / Mary-Jo Foley Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in … Continue reading
Managing open source adoption in your IT organization
This morning I was reading an article/blog entry by Paula Rooney called “Gartner doles out sobering predictions for open source use in the enterprise for next 5 years” over at ZDNet. In it, as you would expect, she largely quotes … Continue reading
CNet: “Free-software lawyers: Don’t trust Microsoft’s Open XML patent pledge”
[edited, less musical] See Martin Lamonica’s CNet article “Free-software lawyers: Don’t trust Microsoft’s Open XML patent pledge”. Compare with the 2006 statement from the Software Freedom Law Center’ regarding ODF, the Open Document Format, an ISO standard: On the factual … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-27
Ten commandments for Ubuntu | Tech news blog – CNET News.com “Ubuntu is making serious headway, but not because it’s the same as Microsoft, SUSE, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but rather because it’s different from these.” (tags: ubuntu linux) … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-10
We’re Having a Heat Wave Is heat stroke causing Xbox 360 failures? – Games – MSNBC.com “Microsoft Corp. will not say what went wrong inside of its Xbox 360 video game consoles that could lead to $1 billion in repairs, … Continue reading
Microsoft and GPL v3
They’ve issued a statement. They don’t seem to love it and they don’t like what others are saying their deal with Novell implies about their intellectual property and FOSS. Frankly, whatever they say, it might end up being up to … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-06
The FASTForward Blog » Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL only: Enterprise 2.0 News, Coverage, and Commentary See comments from Simon at the end, for added fun and debate. (tags: sun gplv3) Ugly Airline Math: Planes … Continue reading
Final GPL v3 and LGPL v3 are now available
The final GPL v3 and LGPL v3 licenses are now available at the FSF website.
Introducing … GPL v3
As most people who have been following the work of the Free Software Foundation know, tomorrow is the day when GPL v3 will be officially and finally announced. This is 18 months after work began to update the workhorse license … Continue reading
links for 2007-06-13
The Times They Are A Changin’ Torvalds: Solaris could nudge Linux to GPL 3 | CNET News.com Torvalds: “I don’t think the GPL 3 is as good a license as (GPL) 2, but on the other hand, I’m pragmatic, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, GPL, Linux, Office 2.0, Solaris
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FSF releases “Last Call” draft of GPL v3
The Free Software Foundation has released v3 of the GPL, the GNU General Public License. Their website has the latest draft, a guide, FAQs, and an essay by Richard Stallman. called “Why Upgrade to GPL Version 3″.
links for 2007-05-23
SOA IBM Shows Impact of SOA “Impact 2007 is IBM first customer event focusing on SOA, which analysts say is a $160 billion market opportunity. And IBM touts that the company has successfully delivered on more than 4,500 SOA engagements … Continue reading
links for 2007-04-10
Open Source Canonical wants open-source cooperation | CNET News.com “Ubuntu Linux backer Canonical has launched a beta version of its Launchpad service, part of an effort to make open-source programming methods a better match for Microsoft.” (tags: ubuntu) Closing a … Continue reading
links for 2007-04-04
GPL v3 GPL v3: V for vindication | InfoWorld | By Neil McAllister Amen. Great article, Neil. (tags: gplv3) From Here to There Michael Dolan Dot Com: JBoss to Apache Geronimo Code/App Conversion Tool “I saw this the other day … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Games, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Apache, Geronimo, GPL, JBoss, ODF, Second Life
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GPL v3: In the home stretch
After more than a year of work, it appears that GPL v3 is almost ready for adoption. I don’t mean this simply from a timetable perspective, I mean it from what the document says and what it will do for … Continue reading
New GPL v3 draft available
The latest draft of the GPL v3 is now available on the FSF website.
Is the Microsoft UI license GPL-compatible?
Microsoft has very kindly posted the new royalty-free-but-with-conditions license and a FAQ on its website. They’ve also directly, sort of, dealt with the open source question in the FAQ: Can the license be obtained for use in Open Source products? … Continue reading
Will there be another Java?
This is the second version of this entry. In the first, I think I mentioned Java too often and in ways that opened myself up for criticism as a heretic, even though it wasn’t really my intention to find fault. … Continue reading
links for 2006-11-14
Sun, Java, and GPL Sun picks GPL license for Java code | Tech News on ZDNet “After years of requests and debates, Sun Microsystems is ready to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license.” (tags: gpl java sun) ongoing … Continue reading
Sun, Java, GPL
I’m glad this finally got done. To Sun: keep pushing, finish the job, and don’t forget the Apache Harmony project. To you internal Sun people who worked so hard to make this happen: congratulations and thanks for your perseverance! To … Continue reading
Snapshot – October 9, 2006
Here are a few odds and ends that somehow reflect things I’ve been thinking about and doing lately: The Three Current Most Popular Blog Posts “HR news from Massachusetts” Comment on Louis Gutierrez stepping down as CIO of Massachusetts. “Microsoft … Continue reading
Posted in Bob Dylan, Books, Music, Open Source
Tagged Bob Dylan, GPL, Massachusetts, Microsoft, television
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Eben Moglen statement to Linux kernel developers
On Friday I published a brief blog entry called “Openness in action: Get used to it.” In it I discussed how the FSF’s stewardship of the GPL and the GPL v3 drafting process called for listening to a wide range … Continue reading
Openness in action: Get used to it
There seems to have been a bit of “he said, she said” lately about the draft GPL v3 and the process by which it is being created. Here are just a few examples: “Torvalds: Give me GPLv2″ at iTWire, “Top … Continue reading
links for 2006-07-29
Open Standards Berlind: Open Source Initiative gets into the game of defining ‘open’ | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com “The OSI is seeking public comment if you want to chime in. Just go to the Web site and join the … Continue reading
links for 2006-07-28
Open Source Berlind: Does open source usage free your budget up for the best talent? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com Good food for thought. Programmers tend to differ by orders of magnitude rather than just linearly. I used to … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source, Standards
Tagged Google, GPL, Linux, Microsoft, ODF, ODF Alliance, Ubuntu
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Neil McAllister at InfoWorld mixes it up with the FSF over DRM
Over at InfoWorld, Neil McAllister just published a piece called “Free Software Foundation: Free as in ‘do what I say’”. In it he says, in part, All the more reason to be disappointed by the FSF’s recent, regrettable spiral into … Continue reading
internetnews.com Story on GPL v3
Sean Michael Kerner has an article over at internetnews.com, “GPL 3: Analysis and Review Begins” in which he’s collected together more of the reaction to the GPL v3 draft. From our perspective, there’s not a whole lot to say right … Continue reading
Draft of GPL v3 now available
From this FSF page. Update: Simon Phipps and Danese Cooper collaborated on a run down of this morning’s activities at the FSF GPL v3 meeting in Cambridge, MA. It’s on Simon’s blog here.
Some open source license usage stats
I keep losing these links and bugging my colleagues, so I’m posting them here so that I, and perhaps you, can find them again. The page on SourceForge.net that gives the stats for how many licenses are used for which … Continue reading
