2007 Top Ten Free and Open Source Legal Issues
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| The year 2007 has been the most active year for legal developments in the
| history of free and open source (“FOSS”). In fact, you would have been hard
| pressed in past years to enumerate even five important legal developments.
| However 2007 permits the creation of a traditional “top ten” list.
|
| [...]
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| 1. Publication of GPLv3...
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| 2. SCO’s Attack on Linux Collapses...
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| 3. First Legal Opinion on Enforcing a FOSS License...
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http://lawandlifesiliconvalley.blogspot.com/2007/12/2007-top-ten-free-and-open-source-legal.html
http://tinyurl.com/353hxh
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Sun tiptoes into GPLv3
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| Sun Microsystems will release its xVM Ops Center virtualisation management
| application under the General Public Licence version 3 (GPLv3), the company
| revealed at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203486/sun-tiptoes-gplv3
Why does Microsoft seem scared of GPLv3?
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| Microsoft is extremely keen to avoid "legal debate" over whether its recent
| partnerships with Linux firms such as Novell, Xandros, and Linspire, mean
| Redmond must assume any of the new licenses' legal obligations.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Why-does-Microsoft-seem-scared-of-GPLv3-/0,130061733,339279673,00.htm
FSF Says GPLv3 Means Microsoft Patent Protection for All
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| Microsoft's covenant not to sue users of Novell's SUSE Linux
| Enterprise will be extended to all General Public License v3
| users as soon as Novell includes GPLv3 code within its Linux
| distribution, according to the Free Software Foundation.
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http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=E86B6EA6-EC51-43DF-A305-9939E5829EFC
Did Microsoft ruin SCO?
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| Which comes to the scenario in mind. Gates approaches McBride and puts forth
| a proposition that SCO should try and make money out of Linux. He offers to
| bankroll the operation in a backhanded manner and then steps back to watch
| the action unfold. His reasoning for doing this? To have a test run before he
| puts Microsoft through the same paces. Either way he wins.
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/did-microsoft-ruin-sco-19663
SCO long, it's been bad to know ya
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| The elusive Pamela Jones of Groklaw -- whom SCO tried unsuccssfully to locate
| so they could force her to provide a deposition earlier this year, in yet
| another strange twist to the case -- reports that the trial to determine
| damages will take place next January. With any luck, the SCO farce will be
| just a bad memory by mid February -- a nice valentine to those of us who have
| a fondness for open software that stays open.
|
| Novell isn't likely to collect much scratch out of this. It's unlikely SCO
| will have anything left, once it pays off its attorneys -- the only true
| winners in this case.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2007/12/sco_linux_novel.html
Verizon Being Sued for GPL Infringement
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| According to the SFLC, Verizon can be added to the list of companies
| infringing on the GPL. They filed a lawsuit in New York yesterday (pdf)
| alleging that the company is handing out routers using the GPL'd
| software 'BusyBox' without accompanying source code.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/07/1953217&from=rss
Second Round of GPL Infringement Lawsuits Filed on Behalf of BusyBox Developers
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| The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed two
| more copyright infringement lawsuits on behalf of its clients, two principal
| developers of BusyBox, alleging violation of the GNU General Public License
| (GPL). The defendants in the lawsuits are Xterasys Corporation and High-Gain
| Antennas, LLC. BusyBox is a lightweight set of standard Unix utilities
| commonly used in embedded systems and is open source software licensed under
| GPL version 2.
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/nov/20/busybox/
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