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[News] Open Source Faker Found: Opentape

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Opentape: Not Quite Open Source

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| Opentape appears, in its current state, to offer an especially stark example 
| of the connection between copyrights and open source. At least one developer 
| who can't be bothered about music copyrights can't be bothered about software 
| copyrights either. It doesn't seem that this is a good way to call for 
| support from the open source community.     
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http://ostatic.com/171742-blog/opentape-not-quite-open-source


Recent:

British Government Violates Copyright

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| As much as I utterly despise the entire premise of Intellectual Monopoly,
| this is about violating the principles of a Free License, and if it's good
| enough for the British government to violate our civil rights in the name of
| Intellectual Monopoly, then it's good enough for the Free World to protect
| its "property" (in fact Freedom) too…
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http://slated.org/british_government_violates_copyright


UK government stole website theme

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| NUMBER 10, the UK Prime Minister's website, is apparently built using a
| design it nicked.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/18/uk-government-stole-website


Number 10 and the Creative Commons

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| I can only assume that Number 10 have requested, and received, permission of
| the author to remove all traces of this license and attribution from their
| Wordpress site. I have left a “contact us message” at the author’s website to
| see if this is the case…
|
| [Update] Anthony Baggett, the theme’s author, has just confirmed that No 10
| have not requested that the attribution be removed. That’s not playing fair
| by my book.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/18/number-10-and-the-creative-commons/


Timber! (More on Number 10’s website)

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| So, out of 24 files in the original theme package, only three files have been
| removed. If you look here in the comments from my post of yesterday, you can
| read what Dave Smith of NMM said:
|
|     1. The only file that was drawn upon from Ant’s theme was the css file.
|
| Now clearly some of the files above will be pre-requisites for any Wordpress
| theme (like index.php for example) but 21 out of 24?.
|
| I’m sure I can smell something quite smelly around here.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/22/timber-more-on-number-10/


More on Number 10’s website fiasco

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| The original stylesheet4 is 612 lines in length and is 9234 bytes in size
| (9KB).
|
| The modified stylesheet5 is 3826 lines long and weighs in at a frankly
| astonishing 63724 bytes (63KB)!
|
| [...]
|
| “If” the developers have modified the Wordpress engine, as is being suggested
| as a possibility here, and then sold it to the Government, in my humble
| understanding that means they have distributed their modifications. That
| means those modifications must also be licensed under the GPL. I had a quick
| look on New Media Maze’s web site and couldn’t find an area for software
| downloads or mention of the GPL. That doesn’t say anything to be honest and
| there might be nothing to this, but it would be interesting to find out a bit
| more… Is there a real Wordpress guru who can look at the “footprint” of the
| XHTML the site generates and tell if it is different? Or are there any other
| ways to tell if it has been modified?
|
| Anyway, what a wheez this all is for us bloggers: It just isn’t Gordon’s year
| is it…
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/18/more-on-number-10/


US presidential candidate is a pirate

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| THE PRESUMED Republican US presidential candidate John McCain favours
| draconian copyright enforcement, except when his own election campaign uses
| other people's music.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/16/gop-presidential-candidate
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