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SCO and Ch. 11 Trustee Cahn Oppose Novell's Motion to Consolidate with IBM or Assign One Judge to Both...to suddenly deal with these complicated and interwoven cases to at least comprehend how they interact, particularly with respect to the GPL. Don't forget that Judge Dale Kimball was assigned to both IBM and Novell. So assigning the two... |
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Computer World | 3 days ago
Microsoft delays open-sourcing of Windows 7 tool
...in WDUT, and by not sharing the source code for its modifications, or the tool itself, to the project, as required by the terms of GPL (GNU General Public License). Galli admitted the error Nov. 13, also on the Port25 blog, saying that...
In this article: Microsoft, WUDT, Linux, DVD, IDC, Asia, and Western Europe
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Ars Technica | 7 days ago
Week in Microsoft: Windows 7 meets the GPL, MinWin, FUD
...called "MinWin," has now started to bear fruit. Ars takes a look inside MinWin. Windows 7 tool violates GPL; Microsoft will open source it: After pulling the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from its servers over reports that it might...
In this article: Microsoft, Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Windows Home Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, RSS Feed, Cloud computing, Microsoft Surface, MSDN, and Twitter
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CNET News.com | November 20, 2009
Microsoft's embrace of MySQL could kill it
...cloud and all that it enables vendors to do with open-source software. After all, the protections that the GNU General Public License (GPL) and other open-source licenses offer in the traditional software world are essentially meaningless...
In this article: Microsoft, MySQL AB, IBM, CNET, Google, Netbook, and Jboss
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TechFlash | November 16, 2009
Q&A: How a blogger found GPL code in a Windows 7 install tool
...not to be missed. Download the map or add your own location. TechFlash > Microsoft Blog > 2009 > November > Q&A: How a blogger found GPL code in a Windows 7 install tool SOFTWARE Q&A: How a blogger found GPL code in a Windows 7...
In this article: Microsoft, GPL, Googling, Derivative, CodePlex, and Mark Russinovich
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OSNews | November 14, 2009
Microsoft Roundup: Bugs, Holes, Patents and GPL Violations
posted by Kroc Camen on Sat 14th Nov 2009 22:20 UTC Thom's down with flu, so to avoid moving a lot of interesting news to pg.2, I am creating a combined item here covering a number of Microsoft related news items submitted to us. Massive...
In this article: Microsoft, Unix, Massive, GPL, YouTube, and Windows Server 2008 R2
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The Register | November 13, 2009
Microsoft admits Win 7 tool violated GPL
...bootable USB drives or DVD backup media from the electronic software edition of Windows 7. ImageMaster had violated the GPL because it contained modified code that had been distributed without the corresponding source-code and because...
In this article: Microsoft, GPL, Competitive advantage, and DVD
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Microsoft: Windows 7 tool used GPL code
...said it will make available next week the source code for the tool as well as the binaries under the terms of the General Public License (GPL v2). Microsoft will also make the tool again available to customers at the Microsoft store.
In this article: Microsoft, GPL, Netbook, CNET News, Ina Fried, Chrome OS, Android, Linux, and CodePlex
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Techdirt | November 10, 2009
Compare And Contrast: How GPL Enforces Violations vs. How RIAA/MPAA/BSA Enforce Violations
While we've discussed how extreme views in the open source community can, at times, rival the way the entertainment industry acts towards those who violate licenses, reader Nick Coghlan writes in to point to an article that highlights how...
In this article: Software Freedom Law Center, GPL, and Bradley Kuhn
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Neowin.net / Main | November 10, 2009
Microsoft Windows 7 download tool may have violated GPL
...obviously lifted from the CodePlex-hosted (yikes) GPLv2-licensed ImageMaster project." The GNU General Public License (or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license typically used in licensing open source software. According to...
In this article: Microsoft, Windows 7, Allegation, CodePlex, and MSDN
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Prime Newswire | November 04, 2009
Versant Upgrades Open Source License -- Adopts GPLv3
...number of new adopters of GPLv3, we are expanding our support to include the latest license." The GNU General Public License (GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The...
In this article: Richard Stallman, Open source license, Redwood City, California, GNU, and AOL
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The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. The GPL is the most popular and well-known example of the type of strong copyleft license that requires derived works to be available under the same copyleft. Under this philosophy, the GPL is said to grant the recipients of a computer program the rights of the free software definition and uses copyleft to ensure the freedoms are preserved, even when the work is changed or added to. This is in distinction to permissive free software licences, of which the BSD licences are the standard examples.
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a modified, more permissive, version of the GPL, originally intended for some software libraries. There is also a GNU Free Documentation License, which was originally intended for use with documentation for GNU software, but has also been adopted for other uses, such as the Wikipedia project.
The Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) is a similar licence with a focus on networking server software. The GNU AGPL is similar to the GNU General Public License, except that it additionally covers the use of the software over a computer network, requiring that the complete source code be made available to any network user of the AGPLed work, for example a web application. The Free Software Foundation recommends that this licence is considered for any software that will commonly be run over the network.
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