Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'gpl'

an interesting GPL debate over the letter vs the spirit of the license as they pertain to the WordPress community. my own take is that what is legally permissible is inevitable, one way or another, so that should be planned on.

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june 2009 by sogrady

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Law & Life: Silicon Valley » Top Ten Open Source Legal Developments: 2008

very useful list from Mark

2008 opensource legal developments foss sco gpl patents
january 2009 by sogrady

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Creative releases Linux X-Fi driver under the GPL

this is excellent news, as i own one of these cards and run it extremely imperfectly under Intrepid

linux gpl creative x-fi drivers
november 2008 by sogrady

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Illuminata Perspectives » Blog Archive » VMware and the GPL

had missed this the first time around, and while i'm not as entirely sure as Gordon that there's no legal gray area, the case he presents is solid

gordonhaff vmware gpl licensing virtualization
august 2008 by sogrady

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nanocr.eu » Blog Archive » Rogue developers

looks like the Rogue folks are violating the GPL; unfortunate

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march 2008 by sogrady

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Stefano’s Linotype » Blog Archive » Why Sun bought MySQL

an interesting perspective on the MySQL acquisition

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january 2008 by sogrady

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Mobile Open Source :: Fabrizio Capobianco

"I believe AGPL will save open source." - much as i respect Fabrizio, i don't agree with this assessment. it will be interesting, nevertheless, to see what the reaction to the refreshed license is

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november 2007 by sogrady

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Second Round of GPL Infringement Lawsuits Filed on Behalf of BusyBox Developers - Software Freedom Law Center

more GPL lawsuits. be interesting to see if they settle this one as quickly.

busybox gpl sflc litigation lawsuit infringement
november 2007 by sogrady

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Affero: A new GPL for software as a service | Underexposed - CNET News.com

a more stringent version of the GPL which extends the definition of distribution (and thereby the reciprocal provision) to SaaS; this is Google et al's worst nightmare

saas affero gpl distribution software opensource licensing
november 2007 by sogrady

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Google's open-source mobile platform: the best of the blog chatter | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs

"I guess I don't see the conflict here. At all. The stack runs on top of Linux. Linux is GPL. The stack is not." - the question is what's being distributed, and how what is distributed is being licensed.

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november 2007 by sogrady

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Open Handset Alliance

"Because these innovations and differentiated features can be kept proprietary, manufacturers and mobile operators are protected from the 'viral infection' problem often associated with other licenses." - the use of viral is a major faux pas.

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november 2007 by sogrady

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OpenChange - What is OpenChange

hadn't seen this one before

openchange email exchange gpl groupware mail opensource outlook via:luis
october 2007 by sogrady

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Luis Villa’s Blog / three more things worth noting about the GPL case

as always, rely on Luis for analysis on all things legal. as a bunch of us were discussing this afternoon in #redmonk, this is a big deal.

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september 2007 by sogrady

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BambooInvoice: Simple, Beautiful, Open Source, Online Invoicing

interesting. i wonder if it can be integrated with Quickbooks Online Edition

bambooinvoice quickbooks gpl opensource invoicing software via:alex
september 2007 by sogrady

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License

i thought this was still in the discussion stage, but apparently not. interesting.

netbeans licensing opensource gpl ide cddl duallicensing
august 2007 by sogrady

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Selling software that sells itself: An interview with Matt Asay - LinuxWorld

caught this via Cote: Matt's fired up about adoption of the GPL

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august 2007 by sogrady

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Simon Phipps, SunMink: Welcome to GPLv3

Simon's take on GPLv3; consistent with what i've heard from him from day one, i think

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july 2007 by sogrady

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upgrading GNU packages to GPLv3

Stallman un upgrading packages to the forthcoming GPLv3

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Luis Villa’s Blog / GPL v3, the Q&A: part 2- developers

part 2 in Luis' excellent GPLv3 analysis

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june 2007 by sogrady

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Blogging Roller: MovableType is going GPL

i'll be interested to see what impact - if any - this has on the blogging server market, which is crowded

blogging server MovableType opensource gpl
june 2007 by sogrady

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Joyeur: Joyeur: Joyent To Offer Open Source Version of Slingshot

Joyent goes the dual license route for Slingshot

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april 2007 by sogrady

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O'Reilly Radar > GPLv3, Linux and GPLv2 Compatibility

had a good debate about this in #redmonk today; while many of the regulars were far more sanguine about the potential for problems than Allison, i'm not sure where i stand

gplv3 gpl linux gplv2 licensing opensource compatibility
april 2007 by sogrady

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Life at Eclipse: EPL: The Business-Friendly Copyleft License

Mike's thoughts on EPL vs GPL, and a response to Matt Asay

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april 2007 by sogrady

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madduck's droppings : /debian/2007.04.03_zimbra-in-debian

"Please, someone package it alright, if the licence is DFSG-compatible (I have not checked). If it's not, I think we should coerce the developers into making it such. After all, we're Debian." ;)

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april 2007 by sogrady

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r0ml.net » Blog Archive » Food for lawyers

an excellent question - hadn't parsed this that far

opensource gpl duallicense definition r0ml
march 2007 by sogrady

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TheOpenForce.com: Alfresco Goes GPL

Zack sums up the news

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Fighting Analysis Paralysis with Open Source? « rand($thoughts);

analysis from Savio of the actual Linux kernel licensing

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february 2007 by sogrady

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hello to you!: The push to remove non-free graphics drivers

pragmatic thinking on the non-free drivers issue; i agree to an extent, but would note that some manufacturers have been very slow to release drivers for non-supported operating systems, and the lack of open source doesn't help that

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february 2007 by sogrady

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Open Sources | InfoWorld | Open Source Licensing: An enigma wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in legal fees | January 30, 2007 10:13 PM | By Dave Rosenberg

great response from Dave to the attribution "crisis"

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january 2007 by sogrady

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OpenSUSE Build System - Miguel de Icaza

i'll have to give this a look; looks like an interesting package generation application

linux package-management OpenSUSE gpl
january 2007 by sogrady

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GPL 3: An Open-Source Earthquake? - Open Source, Free Software Foundation, Linux, General Public License, GPL2 - CRN

i concur with Simon - Stacy's piece on this is pretty balanced; personally, i'm worried - we still have fear of the GPL in many enterprise quarters, and the extended reach of this license is not likely to diminish that - particularly given Linus' objectio

phipps gplv3 gpl linux samba allison torvalds via:Simon
january 2007 by sogrady

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Second Life client GPL'd - two weeks later... | Uwe Hermann

what's happened with Second Life since it was open sourced

opensource secondlife gpl via:Mark
january 2007 by sogrady

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Main Page - OpenSL

looks like Second Life has been forked

secondlife opensource gpl linden via:Jeff
january 2007 by sogrady

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Once More unto the Breach: Microsoft and MySQL: A Thought Experiment

as i told Stephe, i wish this could be more than a thought experiment, but it's interesting nonetheless

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Kaj Arnö’s blog » Blog Archive » MySQL refines its GPL licensing scheme under MySQL 5.0 and MySQL 5.1

"MySQL has today refined its licensing scheme from “GPLv2 or later” to “GPLv2 only“, in order to make it an option, not an obligation for the company to move to GPLv3." - interesting decision, made possible by the dual license model

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january 2007 by sogrady

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Microsoft patent deal could leave Novell behind - Computer Business Review

my first though on hearing some of the GPLv3 saber rattling was that it wasn't likely due to the friction b/twn the kernel.org guys and the FSF, but this is a good reminder that there's more to Linux than the kernel

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Who Else Gains from a GPL'd Java? | Linux Journal

appreciate the kind words from Glyn; read this, b/c he covers a couple of things i missed - notably the impact on Stallman, and provides more historical context

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Christopher Blizzard » Blog Archive » the opportunity costs of java’s license

pre-GPL non open source Java concerns

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Ryan Tomayko - Java in The Land of Make Believe

"Whether it reaches that status is yet to be seen but I care about the fact that it is now at least possible." - i could not be happier that Ryan's back at it, and this is why

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Interview with Matt Mullenweg by Blogging Pro

"Frankly if someone could take a product we wrote and do a better job with it then they deserve the success. It has been tried before. It’s not really something I worry about a lot." - couple of folks have linked here, but good interview

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november 2006 by sogrady

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Firefox Set Free in IceWeasel

IceWeasel? really seems like this should be unnecessary

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LWN: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

the aforementioned Kernel developers' position piece on GPLv3

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september 2006 by sogrady

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Life at Eclipse: My Prediction Still Stands

Mike's take on the recent Java news; a bit pessimistic, but some useful feedback - we'll see what happens

eclipse java opensource cddl oo.o gpl
august 2006 by sogrady

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Torvalds critical of new GPL draft | CNET News.com

to be honest, i haven't had time to review the new draft; will do so soonest

gpl drm linux license draft community hardware torvalds
july 2006 by sogrady

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When the bough breaks [dive into mark]

Pilgrim leaves OS X; the gains are slight, but i'm seeing a few more defections here and there

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june 2006 by sogrady

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Pick a license for your Rails additions

some interesting thoughts on license choices as debated by Ruby on Rails advocates

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march 2006 by sogrady

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PostGIS

very cool Postgres-based open source project that blends GIS data allowing for fuzzy data location based services

api conversion database db postgres xml geolocation geography gpl gps gis
february 2006 by sogrady

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spyderous: [Gentoo] GPL OpenSolaris?

Donnie (a Gentoo dev) is psyched about the possibility of a GPL'd OpenSolaris

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january 2006 by sogrady

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SunMink : SunMink

Simon and Danese's notes from the GPL v3 conference (which i was regrettably unable to attend)

gpl phipps opensource licensing gpl-3.0
january 2006 by sogrady

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The Jem Report - The truth about Mambo and Joomla

update on the future of Mambo/Joomla

mambo joomla cms opensource fork php gpl
january 2006 by sogrady

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Matusow's Blog : Dynamic...Static...hmmm

Jason weighs in on Ian's Debian/Nexenta GPL/CDDL post

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november 2005 by sogrady

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Ian Murdock’s Weblog ‽ No good deed goes unpunished

great, practical piece on Nexenta

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november 2005 by sogrady

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eighty-eight miles per hour

Jeff's practical take on Solaris and the CDDL; i'm always a fan of pragmatism

pragmatists waugh cddl gpl linux solaris gnome
october 2005 by sogrady

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Luis Villa's Blog

Luis' not a big fan of the CDDL, apparently

cddl gpl opensolaris linux schillix
october 2005 by sogrady

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Up North: Back from the Summit

Bryan, Claire or Jim - you may want to comment here: "D-Trace looked really useful but at the moment is Solaris only and what I heard was intentionally made GPL-incompatible"

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october 2005 by sogrady

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TheOpenForce: Evolution of the GPL

on MySQL and the GPL

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september 2005 by sogrady

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The Blog of Ben Rockwood

Ben's response to Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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august 2005 by sogrady

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Open Source: It's Still All about Control

sure, control's an issue - but it's the same deal for all of the dual licensees

cddl opensolaris vaughan-nichols opensource dual-licenses control gpl mambo
august 2005 by sogrady

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Miro backflips on Mambo copyright: ZDNet Australia: News: Software

Mambo assigns its copyright over to a foundation

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august 2005 by sogrady

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The Blog of Ben Rockwood

Stallman weighs in on the CDDL; interesting

cddl gpl fsf stallman
august 2005 by sogrady

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Tim Yang’s Geek Blog ‽ Why should a software company GPL its code

Tim on why ISVs should use the GPL

gpl isvs yang
august 2005 by sogrady

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alo's blog

older post proposing a Debian / OpenSolaris combo

opensolaris debian sun cddl gpl
august 2005 by sogrady

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The Observation Deck

Dtrace on FreeBSD? wow, i thought Sun didn't get open source ;)

dtrace freebsd gpl cddl bsd
august 2005 by sogrady

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mrdeviant: Martin Fink continues to be a giant, soapy douche

what do you really think, mrdeviant :) amusing take on some of the recent GPL statements by HP's Fink - check out the HP open source projects link tho, that was interesting

hp fink gpl cddl apache bsd lgpl opensource
august 2005 by sogrady

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EclipseZone ‽ Professional Open Source

a sympathetic look at some of Fleury's most recent comments

foss gpl licensing eclipse fleury
july 2005 by sogrady

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Slashdot | Google Maps for Boingo -- And Any Page

"This inspired me to create Greasemap, a GPL Firefox plugin that injects a Google map into any page. Notably, it was a 7 hour project"

greasemonkey google Maps gpl firefox wireless
july 2005 by sogrady

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ONLamp.com: ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore"

wide ranging and fascinating interview with Eric Raymond; this is sure to piss a lot of people off, but is very rational in its views