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Have many Android vendors lost their rights to distribute Linux?
Have Android OEMs violated the GPL and now forfeited the right to distribute Linux?
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Android Linux FUD Debunked
Android may have legal problems with Microsoft and Oracle, but it has nothing to worry about from Linux.
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Should Apple ban GPL from the App Store?
Microsoft has banned GPLv3 software from the Windows Phone and Xbox apps ... but should Apple do the same in the App Store?
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Android vs. iPhone: The GPL Question
You can't sell GPL software on the Apple App Store, but you can do it on Google's Android App Store.
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How to avoid public GPL floggings on Apple's App Store
Publishing your source may not be enough to comply with Open Source licenses like the GPL.
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No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store
VLC, the popular open-source, media player from VideoLAN has just been pulled from the Apple App Store. It won't be the last.
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Is Linux FOSS or open source?
FOSS activist Alex Oliva says GPL Linux is actually open core, which he terms "free bait."
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Mozilla license becoming Apache-compatible
The most important result may be to make it easy for Google Code contributions to move into the browser. Google is a big supporter of the Apache license.
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Ignorance no excuse for GPL violations
It's time for everyone in this business to understand that, despite its heritage of copyleft, the GPL is just like a Microsoft EULA.
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How to avoid modern day public GPL floggings
Public floggings and executions like the recent SFLC lawsuit could be avoided if actual standards and procedures for compliance with the GPL and other Free and Open Source licenses actually existed.
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Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, 11 more named in GPL lawsuit
Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse and JVC are among 14 consumer electronics companies named in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed today in New York by the Software Freedom Law Center.
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Windows 7 download tool is back and now available under a GPL open-source license
After pulling a Windows 7 download tool from the Microsoft Store because it violated a number of GNU General Public License (GPL) terms, Microsoft has reposted an altered version of it -- and is...
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Where Microsoft is gaining in open source
Microsoft licenses are now used on 1 in every 40 open source projects. That's more than Mozilla. More than Eclipse. More than even the Lesser GPL.
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Microsoft admits its GPL violation; will reissue Windows 7 tool under open-source license
Microsoft officials confirmed on November 13 -- a few days after pulling a Windows 7 download tool that allegedly contained improperly-licensed open-souce code -- that the company did, indeed...
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Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL?
Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in a way that violated the GNU General Public...
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Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development
Richard Stallman and others are trying to block Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Why? Because MySQL is covered by the GNU Public License (GPL), and the purchase has exposed a flaw in the GPL that...
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Open source is sold and FOSS is not
If someone comes to you wearing a suit, a smile, and their hand out, it matters little what license their wares may carry. They're still a salesman. They're open source.
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Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers?
After releasing with much fanfare 20,000 lines of driver code under the GNU General Public License (GPL) for inclusion in the Linux kernel, Microsoft hasn't followed through with the necessary...
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Pigs are flying low: Why Microsoft open-sourced its Linux drivers
The pigs are still in the air. Microsoft really did release not one, but two, pieces of code under the formerly Microsoft-hated GNU General Public License (GPL) this week. But one of the key...
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Why Apache is not the bottom of the open source incline
If you truly want individual contributions, your best chance of getting them comes if you and they are on the same legal footing, and the same practical footing, regarding the code base. You want...
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