Pinboard: bookmarks for sogrady tagged 'licensing'

"The Free Software Foundation has released the GNU Free Document License version 1.3. Section 11 of that license now (essentially) permits certain wikis to be relicensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (v3.0) license, so long as the relicensing is completed by August 1, 2009. That means, the Wikipedia community now has the choice to relicense Wikipedia under a Creative Commons license. (Here's the FAQ for the amendment.)" - interesting news indeed

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november 2008 by sogrady

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Dropbox - Download Dropbox - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.

"Q: I found a bug, I have a patch! A: That's awesome. You rule! Due to legal requirements, we can only accept patches verbatim into our release if you file a copyright assignment to Evenflow, Inc. Alternatively, you can release your patch into the public domain, that allows us to sidestep all legal issues. Don't worry we'll still credit you in our CONTRIBUTORS file :) This is similar to the way GNU does things."

dropbox licensing copyright assignment
september 2008 by sogrady

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John’s Blog » Progress on Firefox license issues

"After a bunch of work the last couple of days, I think we’re in a much better place with respect to notices & licenses for Firefox...Canonical/Ubuntu has worked with us on this a lot, and has been very helpful, as have the RedHat and Fedora teams."

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september 2008 by sogrady

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Progressive License 1.0 | alexking.org

Alex, talking about the plugin we had the Crowd Favorite guys build. excellent.

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september 2008 by sogrady

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Mitchell’s Blog » Blog Archive » Ubuntu, Firefox and License Issues

fun w/ EULAs

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september 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

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august 2008 by sogrady

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Sun Wavering On Open Sourcing JavaFX? - Weiqi Gao's Observations

what's the status of this? does anyone have an update?

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june 2008 by sogrady

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SpringSource Team Blog » Open Source, Open Strategy: The SpringSource Manifesto

"We are not changing and will not change the license of any existing project. The Spring Portfolio will remain under the Apache License. This covers the Spring Framework, Spring Security, Spring Web Flow and the rest of the Spring Portfolio."

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june 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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MIX - Novell's de Icaza criticizes Microsoft patent deal - LinuxWorld

interesting to see Miguel this outspoken on the subject. one wonders if there are wider implications.

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march 2008 by sogrady

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OpenOffice.org goes to LGPLv3 [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]

i still hope to see OO.o become a foundation, but in the meantime this represents progress

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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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Open Source Licensing: SugarCRM’s original way to abide the GPL | Commercial Open Source Software

can't wait for the debate on this one

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december 2007 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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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

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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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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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More translating corporate speak | LinuxWorld Community

"English: 'Remember Unix source licenses? We're doing that with QNX.' " - high comedy

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september 2007 by sogrady

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Luis Villa’s Blog / Simon Phipps and Moonlight give me an excuse to post a cool picture

"License says ‘you can use it without restrictions…but the patent license says…as long as you get it from Novell.‘ If you...can live with that sort of uncertainty, go for it and use Moonlight; if you can’t, well, don’t say you weren’t warned

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Aptana Public License - 1.0

the OSI's license index site is down, but it doesn't appear that this license is OSI approved

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september 2007 by sogrady

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License

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

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august 2007 by sogrady

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VentureCake » Blog Archive » The VMware house of cards

a rather startling - and curiously timed - attack on VMWare's ESX product

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august 2007 by sogrady

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Infrastructure and economics of online journalism at Churbuck.com

"I still maintain, as I did in December, that it is entirely possible to create a publishing company with zero investment in software licenses. It’s the destruction of that barrier to entry that is crushing the big publishers more than any other."

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august 2007 by sogrady

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license-discuss@opensource.org: 12951: RE: Submitting GPLv3 and LGPLv3 for OSI inclusion.

interesting to hear that MSFT is considering OSI approval for their licenses

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july 2007 by sogrady

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Law & Life: Silicon Valley: General Public License Version 3: A Legal View

Mark's thoughts on GPLv3

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july 2007 by sogrady

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PC World - Sun CEO Mum on GPLv3, Reveals Licensing Hopes

"One of my great fantasies in life is that the number of people with opinions on open source licenses will come roughly into balance with the number of people who have read them." - priceless

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july 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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Luis Villa’s Blog / GPL v3, the Q&A: part 3- companies

another excellent segment of Luis' continuing GPLv3 analysis

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june 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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robilad: QotD: FSF on Apache License 2.0 compatibility

QoTD, indeed: "We are pleased to report that the Final Draft makes the Apache License, version 2.0, fully compatible with GPLv3. We are grateful to the Apache Software Foundation for working with us to achieve this long-sought goal."

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may 2007 by sogrady

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Once More unto the Breach: The Microsoft Open Source Patent Gambit

brilliant response from Mr. Walli; would love to see the patent wiki idea take shape - anybody needs help with that, let us know

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may 2007 by sogrady

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Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Trademarks redux

good to see some creative thinking re: trademarks, as they are increasingly the bane of existence for many a project

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may 2007 by sogrady

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Ted Leung on the Air » Blog Archive » Adobe open sources Flex

Ted's educated opinion on what is without question significant news from the Adobe gang; Flex is open source

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april 2007 by sogrady

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IBM developerWorks : Blogs : Patrick Mueller

pmueller is frustrated with the state and pace of innovation in the Java world

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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

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april 2007 by sogrady

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Open Letter to Sun Microsystems - JCK - The Apache Software Foundation

here's the letter; already wrote this up, so see the blog for comments

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april 2007 by sogrady

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WikiLicensing - Ubuntu Wiki

the Ubuntu folks are looking to relicense their wiki content under a CC license: as an infrequent contributor, i'm all for it - sounds like a great idea

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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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Covalent Technologies

bunch of folks - including some of the #redmonk guys - are upset about the dropped goal of Apache compatibility

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april 2007 by sogrady

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NPR vs The RIAA - Consumerist

<sigh> - the RIAA seems determined to be dragged kicking and screaming out the door; good on NPR for fighting the good fight here

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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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OpenSolaris Forums: GPLv3? ...

thread 1 on OpenSolaris & GPLv3

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february 2007 by sogrady

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OpenSolaris Forums: [Fwd: Re: GPLv3?] ...

thread 2 on OpenSolaris & the GPL; some legitimate questions being asked, but a whole lot of unnecessary anti-GPL rhetoric, IMO

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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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Sun to License OpenSolaris Under GPLv3

"Take the GNU Userland, which is an interesting piece of technology that Sun is looking at closely, and we may do something similar with, say, a container flavor," he said. - no secret, i'm a big fan of this approach

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january 2007 by sogrady

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PlexNex: Analyzing the Microsoft Office Open XML License

be interested for the 'Softies answers to some of the questions raised here; as Sam says, a dialogue would be great

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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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Doc's Playground: Rhythmbox re-licencing

this is why a lot of projects require JCA's

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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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Microsoft Open Specification Promise

there are some useful questions to be asked here - as Sam's indicated - but i'm with most of the other commenters in saying that this is a Good. Thing.

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september 2006 by sogrady

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Open Source Java, Part 3 - Miguel de Icaza

very interesting and thoughtful piece from Miguel on open sourcing Java; check out especially his commentary on OO.o and Solaris - as well as the comparions in the last sentence

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may 2006 by sogrady

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SunMink : SunMink

it will be interesting to see what impact this has on demand for open sourcing Java; this was my major problem with it

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may 2006 by sogrady

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Mono on ArsTechnica - Miguel de Icaza

i'm not sure i buy that this is the explanation, but i can say that i've made that connection to Sun folks before - just as i have with PHP and other languages

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may 2006 by sogrady

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PHP developed exclusively by 20 Zend employees - The Pimp

some debate over who's responsible for PHP - timely comments from Andi; also check out the Update

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march 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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SunMink : SunMink

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