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Samba's Jeremy Allison on GPL compliance: "It's not that hard to obey the license."

http://www.softwarefreedom.org

In the most recent episode of the Software Freedom Law Show--released early for holiday travelers--Jeremy Allison talks about his resignation from Novell, the first time he discovered a GPL violation at Samba, and why complying with the license is pretty easy. "What I keep trying to get over, get across to people, especially corporate legal types, is 'We want you to use our stuff.

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Jeremy Allison on “Why Free Software”

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New video from Jeremy Allison, Samba. Go here for the ogg version.

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Mono and Samba: smell the difference, says Allison

http://www.itwire.com

He argues that including Mono as a default part of a GNU/Linux distribution is an unnecessary risk to users and using it should be left up to users - much in the same way that users are free to install players to run patented MP3 files

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Jeremy Allison Recommends Passing Mono Software to Basket of Proprietary Software

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Jeremy Allison from the Samba team argues that Mono and applications that depend on Mono should be put in "restricted" repositories

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Einstein's definition of insanity...

http://www.linuxformat.co.uk

Jeremy Allison, Samba coder and Google Linux evangelist, looks at past and present efforts to bring standards to computing. Specifically, he looks at Microsoft's attempt to fast-track its Office Open XML file format through the ISO standardisation process. Read on for Jeremy's musings...

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