Earlier this week, the Mozilla Foundation published the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 2.0. This is a major update to their flagship license, which covers most of the Foundation's own free software projects, as well as others'.
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FSFE concerned about Nortel patent sale
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Competition authorities are investigating the sale of 6000 patents from Nortel, a bankrupt telecommunications equipment manufacturer, to a consortium of Apple, Microsoft and four other companies. FSFE considers it a serious risk to competition in the mobile technology space, and Free Software as a whole, if those companies acquire these patents.
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EU Commission Paves the Way for Privatized Net Censorship
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“In line with ACTA and SOPA in the US, the Commission wants to impose privatized censorship schemes where companies (ISPs, payment processors) would directly ‘cooperate’ with the entertainment industry to censor their services."
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LibreOffice and XBMC Join SOPA Strike
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In the mean time, more Internet companies join the strike, such as The Document Foundation with their LibreOffice website (still allowing access to the rest of the site) and the XMBC project's website, saying "Today we are proud to stand together with organizations around the world to protest SOPA and its Senate counterpart PIPA
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Post- SOPA and PIPA, What’s Next? No Legislation, More Innovation.
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We’ve seen time and again that consumers are willing to pay at a price point that makes sense for them – this is Economics 101. When new business models emerge, artists and fans win. It’s only the traditional distributers and gatekeepers (we’re looking at you, MPAA and RIAA) who lose.....
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Tell Congress: No Backroom Deals to Regulate the Internet
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Right now, representatives from nine countries including the United States are secretly meeting in a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a trade agreement with the potential to contain intellectual property provisions that go beyond ACTA.
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Patent troll claims ownership of interactive Web—and might win
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"We owns the internet!", claim ultimate patent trolls, Eolas, in the East District Court of Texas. Where else?
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EU Court of Justice Rules Out Private and Automatic Censorship
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In the SABAM vs. Netlog case, it declares that forcing a hosting service to monitor and filter online content violates EU law. This is a crucial and timely ruling, just when initiatives such as ACTA and the revision of the IPRED directive aim to generalise private and automatic online censorship to enforce an outdated copyright regime.
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The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom
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The UN has decided to Free the Internet. An organisation that rose to the task of Freeing Libya should have few problems setting the Internet Free, right? Right!
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ACTA Week in the EU Parliament. MEPs Must Act!
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The referral to the Court of Justice is clearly intended by ACTA proponents as a way to buy time in face of the strong opposition to ACTA. The EU Parliament must therefore proceed immediately and formulate its own reasons for rejecting ACTA.
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Time for government to stand ground and protect Assange
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''Assange is going to make a nice bride in prison. Screw the terrorist. He'll be eating cat food forever.''
''move him from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years''
''[bankrupt] the asshole first … ruin his life. Give him 7-12 years for conspiracy''.
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Don't Let the European Parliament Freeze ACTA!
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Members of the Parliament must live up to their responsibility to protect EU citizens and listen to their uproar against ACTA. What this means is refusing any Parliamentarian referral to the ECJ and continuing their work towards a clear and strong rejection of ACTA.”,
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What one line of code can teach us
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Glyn Moody looks at an example of how a patent on one line of code can inhibit innovation for a generation and how that lesson should not be forgotten when the government is asking what an open standard is.
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Internet to Congress: CISPA is TMI
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The bill would carve out huge exemptions to bedrock privacy law and allow companies to share private user data with the government without any judicial oversight. The result?
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TLWIR 38: Google Trumps Oracle: What Does This Mean for Patent Litigation?
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Oracle Corporation of America just suffered a massive defeat at the hands of Google in its patent infringement lawsuit. A California jury decided that Google did NOT infringe on Oracle’s Java patents with its ubiquitous Android operating system. This decision has a significant impact on the future on the of Free Software.
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