Software Freedom Law Center Releases Paper on Shareware Redistribution of Free
Software
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| The paper describes actions free software developers can take to prevent,
| discover and deal with shareware-related license infringement. It was written
| after several free software authors contacted SFLC with concerns about their
| software being incorporated into shareware products without attribution and
| without source code distribution.
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/mar/27/shareware/
Wikimedia Foundation gets $500,000 donation
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| It's been a good week for the coffers of the Wikimedia Foundation.
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| On Tuesday, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced it was giving $3 million
| over three years to the organization that runs Wikipedia.
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| And on Thursday, top-dog venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and his wife, Neeru,
| said they were going to donate $500,000 to the foundation.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9904771-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Recent:
Sloan Foundation gives Wikimedia Foundation $3 million
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| Talk about hot foundation-on-foundation action.
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| On Tuesday, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced it was giving the
| Wikimedia Foundation--which runs Wikipedia--$3 million.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9903050-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Biggest legal victory ever for GPL
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| For decades, almost no one challenged the General Public License in legal
| matters. In fact, no one has even dared to try to break it in court. That
| record remains unsullied as the biggest company to date--Verizon--that had
| been accused of a GPL violation opted to settle out of court.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2614635569.html
BusyBox Developers Agree To End GPL Lawsuit Against Verizon
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| The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that agreements have
| been reached to dismiss the GPL enforcement lawsuit filed by SFLC against
| Verizon Communications Inc. on behalf of two principal developers of BusyBox.
| Verizon distributes BusyBox to its FiOS customers in devices that are
| provided to Verizon by Actiontec Electronics, Inc.
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/mar/17/busybox-verizon/
Verizon Settles GPL Lawsuit
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| The settlement calls for Actiontec to appoint an Open Source Compliance
| Officer as well as ensuring that Actiontec properly makes available the
| BusyBox source code that it uses. Additionally Actiontec will pay BusyBox
| an 'undisclosed' financial sum.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/03/verizon-settles-gpl-lawsuit.html
Related:
We’re not thieves. We just can’t read contracts (McAfee and Open Source)
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| There is a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) spread about Free/Libre
| and Open Source (FLOSS) licenses. While companies dependant on older
| competing business models suggest these licenses are complex or “ambiguous”,
| the reality is quite the opposite.
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http://blogs.itworldcanada.com/insights/2008/01/11/we%E2%80%99re-not-thieves-we-just-can%E2%80%99t-read-contracts-mcafee-and-open-source/
http://tinyurl.com/39pjml
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