Can Software as a Service get some Open Source lovin' now that the Free Software Foundation gets its licensing act together?
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Closing open source loopholes
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Say what you want about GPLv3, but the update to the most popular open source software license continues to close loopholes that have been used to avoid sharing source code, patent protection and other freedoms that the authors intended. Still, we have yet to see whether this closes off any appeal of the GPL and even open source in general for vendors, developers and users.
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FSF Accepting Donations For GNU PDF Project
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The Free Software Foundation is working to develop a set of libraries and programs that implement the PDF file format. Even non-developers can contribute to the cause.
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Affero: A new GPL for software as a service
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"The Affero General Public License, a new variation of the seminal General Public License (GPL) specifically for one situation the regular GPL doesn't address, is now final..."
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Expert Witness Defense Fund for RIAA Cases Established by Free Software Foundation
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"The Free Software Foundation has announced that it has established an Expert Witness Defense Fund to assist defendants in RIAA cases, in order "to help provide computer expert witnesses to combat RIAA's ongoing lawsuits, and to defend against the RIAA's attempt to redefine copyright law."
Contributions to the Fund are tax deductible and may be made at the following URL...
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Free Software Foundation Releases GNU Affero General Public License Version 3
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"BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA—Monday, November 19, 2007—The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today published the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (GNU AGPLv3).
Read more »Second draft of GNU SaaS licence: GNU Affero GPL
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"FSF have just published the 2nd draft of the GNU Affero GPL. The GNU Affero GPL will be a modified version of GPLv3. The difference, very roughly, is that it includes a requirement that if the software is used on a public server, users must be able to get the source code..."
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Richard Stallman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms",[1] is an American software freedom activist, hacker,[2] and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[3] to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project's lead architect and organizer.
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FSF Confirms Xming Restrictions Not Allowed
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The Free Software Foundation has confirmed that Xming developer, Colin Harrison, has overreached his limits by attempting to impose additional restrictions beyond the requirements of the GNU GPL and LGPL.
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Debian and the grass roots of Linux
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"...Legend has it that the Free Software Foundation (FSF) went looking for someone to coordinate an FSF sponsored release of Linux, and Murdock, then a student at Prudhoe University, responded to the subsequent advert. This version of the story doesn't appear in the histories, so may be apocryphal.
Read more »FSF Compliance Lab online meeting addresses license questions
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The Free Software Foundation's (FSF) Free Software Licensing and Compliance Lab held a public question and answer session in an IRC meeting last night. The meeting was conducted by Brett Smith, the licensing compliance engineer at the FSF.
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FSF - Send comments opposing TLS-authz
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"Much of the communication on the Internet happens between computers according to standards that define common languages.
Read more »FSF opposes making TLS-authz an experimental standard
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"The Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project oppose publication of draft-housley-tls-authz-extns as an experimental standard..."
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FSF/GNU Project Web Site Overhauls Make Navigation Easier
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Recent overhauls of the Free Software Foundation and GNU Project websites have made navigating those sites easier - to do, as well as on the eyes.
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Free Software, Social Innovation
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" We understand that not everyone will be able to cover the costs of visiting the event and we are willing to contribute towards travel and accommodation costs. We invite you to fill out an application by the 19th of October 2007 at the latest. The selected attendees will be contacted by the 22nd of October.
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