I know by now you've seen the notice by the guy claiming to "revoke" the GPL license on his code, because I'm getting email about it.
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Free The BBC | Saving the BBC before DRM kills her...
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BinaryFreedom has launched a new campaign called FreeTheBBC
(http://FreeTheBBC.info), targeting the BBC's proposed DRM regime. The
BBC plans to offer old content only through Real or Windows Media DRM
technology. DRM, or Digital Restrictions Management, is technology that
artificially limits what users can do with media. BinaryFreedom opposes
OOXML Vote: Irregularities in Germany & Croatia and a Call for an Investigation of Norway
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If Microsoft gets this OOXML format "approved", it will be by irregularities in the voting, it seems. Here's more on what happened in Germany and a report on what is being called a scandal in Norway. And another odd process in Croatia.
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gpl vs. skype back in court
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"tomorrow the high district court of munich will hear skype argue against the validity of the gpl."
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GPLv3 crosses the 50 percent threshhold
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This just in from Palamida: roughly 50 percent of active projects licensed under the GPL are now GPLv3. In just one month. That's huge.
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GPL v3 Has Reached 2000 Projects!!!
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Our database now contains over 2000 projects that are using the GPL v3. This is a large milestone for the license, and seems to still be the beginning of wider adoption. Nine months have passed since the release of the controversial license and it has already gained 2k projects.
Read more »The World Sighs as ISO Becomes Irrelevant
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From this point onwards, it is worth starting to argue in favour of ODF because of its merits rather than its ISO rubber stamp. Microsoft has single-handedly redefined the meaning and significance of ISO. It rendered ISO moot.
Read more »OpenOffice.org goes to LGPLv3
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You may recall that a team from Sun devoted a great deal of time to the process of drafting the GPLv3. Our engagement was not just the monitoring exercise that I suspect it was for many of the corporate participants.
Read more »The U.S. voted no on Microsoft Office standard at ISO
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In all the talk (and there’s been plenty of talk) concerning the ISO meetings on Office OpenXML (OOXML) one point stands out. The U.S. voted no.
Read more »First Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Linux, Just Like Ballmer Predicted
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IP Innovation LLC has just filed a patent infringement claim against Red Hat and Novell. It was filed October 9, case no. 2:2007cv00447, IP Innovation, LLC et al v. Red Hat Inc. et al, in Texas. Where else? The patent troll magnet state. And now let's play, where's Microsoft?
Read more »Sun wants to free up the rest of Java, have it ship with Linux
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Sun says it is looking to open source a few remaining Java components so it can ship unencumbered with Linux, and hopefully encourage more Linux developers to use Java.
Read more »Alex Brown Admits "Microsoft Office 2007 Fails OOXML Conformance Tests"
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This takes the cake. Alex Brown has just admitted on his Griffin Brown blog and further to ZDNET UK's Peter Judge that Microsoft Office 2007 has failed two OOXML conformance tests he ran. First ZDNET:
In a blog posting this week, Alex Brown, revealed that Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the latest specifications of the ISO OOXML draft standard.
From Evil to Good: List of Formerly Closed-source Software
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Increasing number of software applications are going the free/open-source way these days. Looks like more and more software companies and developers have seen the barriers of closed-source programs and have now fully realized the significance of freedom.
Read more »Mozilla's Lawyer Isn't a GPLv3 Fan
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The GPL version 3 has been out for six weeks, and the debate about whether to adopt it remains heated.
Read more »Poland Fails to Approve OOXML; Chairman Decides Members Can Vote by Email 10 More Days - huh?
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This is different. There is a report by Borys Musielak of PolishLinux.org that Poland met to vote on OOXML on Thursday. Of 45 members of the committee eligible to vote, 24 showed up to vote, and it split almost down the middle, with 12 for, 10 against and 2 abstaining. This is extraordinary, since Poland voted yes in September, despite the technical committee being opposed. I call that progress.
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