The following FOSDEM 2009 talk shows that Novell not only ignores the GPL but that it also disregards other licences that it disagrees with
Read more »Novell Admits Deliberately Changing Software Licences (Without Permission)
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Ubuntu and Multimedia Patents: An Introduction
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If you're like me, you don't put much thought into where your multimedia codecs come from: you run a quick "apt-get install gstreamer-plugins-ugly" on new installs and move on to more important things. But not everyone's like me, and as Ubuntu moves increasingly into government and the workplace, patent and licensing issues are becoming more and more important for many Ubuntu users.
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Novell's Motions in Limine - to Exclude Testimony, #s 12-19
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Here are the Novell Motions in Limine #s 12-19, asking the court to exclude certain testimony from William Broderick, Lawrence Bouffard, Ed Chatlos, Burt Levine, Kim Madsen, Ty Mattingly, R. Duff Thompson, Doug Michaels, Robert Frankenberg, and Jean Acheson.
Read more »A profile of champion copyfighter Cory Doctorow.
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"Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad."
This was the headline used by Cory Doctorow to break the news about ACTA to an unsuspecting Internet on November 3rd, 2009...
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Google baulks at Conroy's call to censor YouTube
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Google baulks at implementing Stephen Conroy's version of "The Great Wall of China".
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Patent Office Grants EFF Request for Reexamination of Dangerous VOIP Patent
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has won reexamination of an illegitimate patent on voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) that could cripple the adoption of new VoIP technologies.
Read more »Novell Motion in Limine No. 1 - Let's All Live by the Mandate Rule, Shall We?
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Novell has filed its first motion in limine [PDF], the full title of which is Motion in Limine No. 1 to Exclude Evidence and Argument Concerning Claims Not Included in SCO's Appeal or the Tenth Circuit's Limited Mandate. It's making me chuckle. Ah! The mandate rule. Since the judge, the Hon.
Read more »Black Duck patents OSS software license conflict analysis
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Bradley Kuhn, the technology director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) expressed dismay this week after learning that Black Duck Software was granted a patent that covers software methods for detecting and resolving open source software licensing conflicts.
Read more »Symbian’s EPL versus The Linux GPL.
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Wherein your humble author attempts a quick and dirty rundown of the key differences between the software license covering Symbian’s new open OS and the GNU General Public License that’s served the Linux community for many years.
Note that much of what follows has been cobbled together from Wikipedia pages, so feel free to enlighten and/or correct in the comments below this post…
Black Duck Wants Proprietary Monopoly on Free Software Analysis, SFLC Responds
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A software patent which we wrote about before saw the following post appearing as a response from Bradley M. Kuhn (SFLC)
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Novell Asks For Extension to File with Supreme Court and Judge Stewart Issues Trial Order
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Novell has filed a second request for an extension of time to file its appeal with the US Supreme Court. It would like until March 4th. And Judge Ted Stewart has issued his trial order for the trial in Utah in SCO v. Novell, which begins on March 8
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Kuhn: I Think I Just Got Patented
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Bradley Kuhn grumbles about Black Duck Software's recently-announced patent on the process of finding license incompatibilities. "Indeed, the process described is so simple-minded, that it's a waste of time in my view to spend time writing a software system to do it.
Read more »Two More Bills From Pachulski Stang - Still no MORs
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Yes, the flow of money out of SCO never ends, it seems, and so Pachulski Stang has filed a couple of more bills in the SCO bankruptcy. At some point it has to end for them. They withdrew from the case back in November on the 16th, and here we are in February, and they are filing bills for September and November, but not October. That must still be on its way. That alone seems odd.
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LCA: Cooperative management of package copyright and licensing data
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Kate Stewart is the manager of the PowerPC team at Freescale. As such, she has a basic customer service problem to solve: people who buy a board from Freescale would like to have some sort of operating system to run on it. That system, of course, will be Linux; satisfying this requirement means that Freescale must operate as a sort of Linux distributor.
Read more »IFOSSLR Open Source Law Review in Second Issue
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The open source legal profession has established the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSSLR) to discuss topics including copyrights, licensing, software patents, open standards, case law and statutes in the open source arena. The IFOSSLR now appears in its second issue.
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