"Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in), and has a pimpin’ theme and module engine, so you can personalize it however you want."

Just because Chumby says it's open-source doesn't mean it is.

This might be useful down the road.

The developers of a distributed computing software system want to amend the GNU General Public License to ensure that participants aren't volunteering their machines for military research. The Free Software Foundation is blocking their efforts.

I don't fully understand Linus' objections to the anti-DRM provision, but the bit about TiVo is quite interesting.

Via Jordan, a discussion of the differences between licenses and contracts. I wish there was a story like this that explained FCC Licenses.

Via Jordan, explains the legal difference between licenses and contracts in terms of the GPL. This distinction is not made frequently enough in popular reporting about intellectual property.