GPL Project Watch List for Week of 02/22
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| Our LGPL v3 database has grown to 174 LGPL v3 projects, an increase of 19
| LGPL v3 projects or a 12% increase from our recent push.
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http://gpl3.blogspot.com/2008/02/gpl-project-watch-list-for-week-of-0222.html
Stallman relinquishing reins of GNU Emacs after 32 years
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| After more than three decades of work, the message from Richard Stallman,
| creator of the GNU Emacs text editor and keeper of its flame since 1976.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25335
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GPL Project Watch List for Week of 02/15
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| As of February 15th, our GPL v3 database contains 1740 GPL v3 projects, which
| is an increase of 66 GPL v3 projects, above our expected 50 new projects a
| week.
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http://gpl3.blogspot.com/2008/02/gpl-project-watch-list-for-week-of-0215.html
Microsoft Would Lose Patent Rights Under New Linux License Terms
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| The final draft of GPLv3 states that companies that distribute
| open-source software cannot at the same time pursue patent claims
| against users of that software.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199800081
Trolltech to adopt GPL 3 for Qt
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| Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord announced today at the KDE developer conference
| that the company's cross-platform open source Qt application development
| toolkit will be released under the GPL 3. This move, which comes shortly
| after the release of KDE 4.0 (watch for our review on Sunday night), will
| allow the open source desktop environment to adopt the new version of the
| GPL.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/01/18/trolltech-to-adopt-gpl-3-for-qt
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