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Microsoft bans GPLv3 open-source software from Windows Phone and Xbox apps
Microsoft has banned GPLv3 open-source software from Windows Phone and Xbox apps, according to Jan Wildeboer, an open source evangelist and Red Hat employee.
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Alfresco agonistes
Alfresco's agonistes, which is common with all enterprise open source companies, is maintaining open source credibility while bringing in enough cash to keep the doors open.
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What does Europe have against GPLv3?
GPLv3 is about 3 times longer, is full of technical details, is complex (even for a lawyer) and as it is officially valid in English only it may not be the most persuasive license for a German or...
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Talking with Likewise on GPLv3 and community management
I've been watching Palamida's tracking of GPLv3 (and LGPLv3) adoption over the last year with interest. It looks like adoption is moving at a reasonable, if not super-speedy, pace. However, not...
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Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse
Last week, I blogged about the possible future of a unified UNIX GPLv3 operating system "mother distro" comprising the merged source code of the Solaris and Linux kernels (and presumably, the...
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GPLv3 Myth #5: GPLv3 is the best license for software
This article concludes a five part series on the latest version of the most commonly used software license: GPL. In this final part we ask the most important question of all: is GPLv3 the best...
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Is Microsoft bound by GPLv3?
When Microsoft agreed last fall to distribute Novell "get out of court free" tickets, did it make itself subject to GPLv3? Microsoft says no, no, no. The Free Software Foundation says yes, yes, yes.
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News to know: Vista hot fix; GPL drama; MSN Messenger flaw; Google
Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases two Vista hotfix packs via Windows Update Free Software Foundation: No GPLv3 exemptions for Microsoft Ed Burnette: GPLv3 Myth #4: GPLv3...
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Free Software Foundation: No GPLv3 exemptions for Microsoft
It took the Free Software Foundation almost two months. But the organization has finally issued an official statement regarding Microsoft's claim that it won't be bound by terms of the GNU General...
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GPLv3 Myth #4: GPLv3 undercuts the Microsoft/Novell deal
In part 4 of a 5 part series on the new version of the most commonly used free/open source license, today we take a look at one of the reasons it took so long to create--the Microsoft/Novell...
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GPLv3 Myth #3: GPL forbids DRM
In our continuing series on the world's most popular (and least understood) free/open source license, today we look at a controversial subject: Digital Rights Management (DRM). There are two...
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Sugar sweet for GPLv3
The big news today is that SugarCRM has bowed to community pressure and will release the next version of its CRM software under an OSI-approved license. The bigger news may be the identity of the...
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Microsoft establishes more anti-GPLv3 precautions
Microsoft is running as fast as it can to patch up its patent agreements with Linux vendors to thwart any possible impact from the GPLv3. On the heels of repudiating any Novell Linux products...
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Linus vs. the GPLv3
If the GPL has forked, which fork will prevail? There are, after all, many valid, OSI-approved BSD licenses out there.
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Microsoft ups ante on GPLv3 in apparent challenge to license's reach
We can go from here only to more obfuscation and FUD. Let's say FSF vigorously challenges Microsoft, and Microsoft, of course, aggressively resists. Or let's say FSF does nothing and Microsoft, of...
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Microsoft: We're not a party to GPLv3
Microsoft says it's not a party to the third version of the General Public License and assumes it's not under any legal obligations under the license. The statement, made on Thursday, is the...
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It's finished. It's done. GPVv3 that is.
In addition to Linux, GPLv3 also faces threats from Google, which prefers Apache licenses that protect its commercial rights. So, are you making the switch?
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Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL only
I know that developers and architects and operators and CIOs would rather not deal with fine print on code intellectual property issues ad nauseam, but this is just too impactful for the...
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MonkCast #7: GPLv3 Day is here, Web APIs (good for business?) & nary an iPhone mention
OK, so the iPhone was mentioned twice, but in very fleeting moments without any substance whatsoever (it could just have well not been mentioned at all and this week's MonkCast would have been no...
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MonkCast #4: 'URL-based computing' closer to reality (and so too is the GPLv3)
For this week's MonkCast, RedMonk's principal analyst and co-founder Stephen O'Grady joins the call as does RedMonk analyst Michael Cote who sits in for show regular James Governor (on vacation)....
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