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Hypocritical Red Hat hopes to leverage patents to cement its Linux market leadership: Microsoft deal
7 Nov 2015, 4:45 am
I would actually like to see someone sue Red Hat for breach of the GPL and obtain clarification, but even the Free Software Foundation and its satellite organizations are not as principled as they pretend to be. [read post]
9 Oct 2015, 7:46 pm
Hosts: Denise Howell, Sarah Pearson Guests: Stephen LaPorte and Luis Villa The Ad-blockalypse, Creative Commons & GPL, the "Right to be forgotten" backfires, workplace, work-life balance and more! [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 6:27 pm
Republished by Blog Post PromoterErik Schmidt: Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, and creator of the GNU Public License (GPL) was also present. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 2:40 am
If the smallest piece of a larger work is GPL'd, the whole thing must be GPL'd, too.The copyleft "share-alike" obligation would have been a poison pill at least for Microsoft and Google. [read post]
13 May 2015, 1:38 pm
By Chike Eze Can’t we all just get along? [read post]
13 Feb 2015, 4:09 pm
That's why we release the software we develop under strong copyleft licenses like the GNU General Public License (GPL): to ensure that the tools we build remain free software even as they evolve and grow. [read post]
Oracle effectively says Google jumped gun with Supreme Court petition in Android-Java copyright case
9 Dec 2014, 3:36 am
James Niccolai of the IDG News Service was first to obtain a copy of Oracle's response to Google's petition for writ of certiorari (request for Supreme Court review) in the Android-Java copyright case. [read post]
28 Nov 2014, 6:20 am
Urheberrecht: «Copyleft.org – Was Sie schon immer über die GPL wissen wollten. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 12:18 pm
It's also utterly ungrateful: Sun made plenty of Java code available under the GPL, and Oracle acquired it and has supported this ever since--only for some open saucers (a term humorously coined by The Register) to now argue that Oracle's defense of its rights threatens open source development. [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 1:10 pm
There are two key limitations: "Excluded Technologies" and "Excluded Software" (any software licensed under an "Excluded License").As for excluded technologies, Microsoft did not license to Samsung any of its patents relating toKinect-style gesture-based functionality (this exclusion has nothing to do with touchscreen gesture control, as the contract clarifies),Virtual Reality, and"Information Worker Software": a software or a service "designed or offered… [read post]
19 Oct 2014, 5:13 am
Google used the "free Java" promise as an equitable defense, which failed in district court and which Google didn't even try to resuscitate on appeal.Misconception: this is about open-source implementations of the Java APIs.Reality: this case changes nothing at all about everyone's freedom to develop free and open-source Java API implementations under the GPL. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 10:12 am
As part of the deal, Mitro will be releasing the source to its client and server code under the GPL. [read post]
12 May 2014, 2:04 pm
Google could have incorporated Java into Android on open source terms, but chose to eschew the GNU General Public License (GPL) because of its "copyleft" feature.Q: How do the parties' business models and intellectual property strategies with respect to software platforms compare? [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 8:30 pm
The music companies appealed to the Madrid District Court, which also rejected their claims some days ago, declaring the defendant’s technology not liable for the activities carried out via his P2P software.As a matter of principle, the District Court of Madrid held that sharing works covered by intellectual property rights is only permitted where it enjoys the right holder’s authorisation, which may also occur when the right holder shares content under a General Public License… [read post]
16 Feb 2014, 5:30 am
http://t.co/IwsR2afhzH -> Court Rejects Apple Appeal in E-Book Case http://t.co/ySoXZl5l46 -> Unsuspecting singles find dating profiles on unfamiliar sites http://t.co/HAf8usxWVt -> Fair Use For The Future: A Practical Look At Copyright Reform from Australia's AG http://t.co/kHvTx3tcD8 -> BlackBerry Releases Guidelines to Deter Privacy-Infringing Apps http://t.co/CDhBXAzL71 -> Microsoft goes after cybercrime, forges new partnerships for the fight http://t.co/a8IDbHYvSe -> Court… [read post]
15 Feb 2014, 5:30 am
Unsuspecting singles find dating profiles on unfamiliar sites http://t.co/HAf8usxWVt -> Fair Use For The Future: A Practical Look At Copyright Reform from Australia's AG http://t.co/kHvTx3tcD8 -> BlackBerry Releases Guidelines to Deter Privacy-Infringing Apps http://t.co/CDhBXAzL71 -> Microsoft goes after cybercrime, forges new partnerships for the fight http://t.co/a8IDbHYvSe -> Court sides with software developer in open source dispute enforcing GPL http://t.co/z0P9lr1eF0… [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 10:01 pm
Case provides rare opportunity to get court’s analysis of GPL license. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 10:16 pm
Open source licenses cover software copyright, they may come with patent provisions, but licenses like the GPL or ASL (Apache) don't involve trademarks.The trademark -- the little green robot, for example -- is commercially key. [read post]
29 Nov 2013, 2:44 am
From the beginning Google has been playing the open source card, but it never had a formal defense based on its rights under the GNU General Public License (GPL), the free and open source software (FOSS) license under which Sun Microsystems published Java. [read post]
18 Oct 2013, 5:02 pm
The software in question was published under the GPL license, which means it's free to use, AS LONG AS THE COPYRIGHT NOTICE is left intact. [read post]
