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1. Introducing GPLv3

   [ Interview ] Topic: Software Licensing | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 01/30/2006

   Lora Bentley spoke with Richard Fontana, an attorney at the Software Freedom Law Center . The Software Freedom Law Center represents the Free Software Foundation, which recently released the first draft of the GNU GPLv3 for public comment and contribution. Bentley : What is the biggest...

2. Legally Speaking: What GPLv3 Means for the Microsoft-Novell Pact

   [ Interview ] Topic: Software Licensing | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 03/06/2007

   Lora Bentley spoke with Antoinette (Toni) Tease , a registered patent attorney who practices in the areas of intellectual property and technology law. She currently serves as chair of the information technology (IT) division of the American Bar Association's Intellectual Property Law ...

3. Microsoft's GPL v3 Statement Contradicts Itself, Novell

   [ Blog ] Topic: Microsoft | Author: KachinaShaw | Date Published: 07/09/2007

   For those who expected a bit more drama around the release of the GPL v3 a week ago and were disappointed, the wait is over, thanks to Redmond. In a statement widely seen as, well, confusing, Microsoft attempted to draw its line in the sand, or at least make a few scratch marks. The " ...

4. GPL v3 Is Here -- What Next?

   [ Blog ] Topic: Software Licensing | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 07/02/2007

   If, like me, you were out of the office on Friday, you missed the big announcement : GPL v3 has arrived. Finally. After 18 months of a draft process that nearly split the open source world in two, the license is available at gnu.org . This ZDNet UK piece indicates the same thing...

5. Torvalds Sticking with GPL v2

   [ Blog ] Topic: Software Licensing | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 06/12/2007

   In case you were wondering, Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds still thinks GPL v2 is a better license than GPL v3. Which means he's probably not moving his code to the new license once it's released. According to InformationWeek , Torvalds thinks the Free Software Foundation is...

6. Microsoft: We Will Not Be Bound by GPL v3

   [ Blog ] Topic: Linux Distributions | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 07/06/2007

   Here's a shocker -- Microsoft says it isn't bound by GPL v3 . We all knew it was coming; what surprises me is that the company waited nearly a week to tell us. Via a statement on its Web site, Microsoft says none of its actions -- including distributing support coupons under its agreements...

7. Another Industry Attorney on GNU GPL v3

   [ Blog ] Topic: Software Licensing | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 04/05/2007

   Mark Radcliffe, an intellectual property attorney and a partner at DLA Piper, also serves as outside counsel to the Open Source Initiative on a pro bono basis. Tuesday, he was a guest blogger for InfoWorld , where he discussed the key changes in the GNU General Public License v3 from the...

8. Sugar 5.0 Worth the Wait, Says Roberts

   [ Blog ] Topic: SugarCRM | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 08/27/2007

   SugarCRM CEO John Roberts is convinced that open source CRM can compete with the big commercial players in the space. And with the arrival of Sugar 5.0, he goes so far as to tell internetnews.com : We're not afraid of any commercial CRM vendor. Even though Sugar 5.0 comes at the end of the...

9. Dvorak: Is Open Source Just a Fad?

   [ Blog ] Topic: Open Source Software Development | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 10/16/2007

   Tech commentator John C. Dvorak is not one to withhold an opinion. This time, he's picking on open source -- or more specifically, the people behind open source. In Monday's column in PC Magazine , Dvorak says: I now wonder if open source may have been a fad, or perhaps just a more...

10. Google Selling 'Democracy' -- Oh, and Advertising

    [ Blog ] Topic: Google | Author: KenHardin | Date Published: 07/02/2007

    For everybody -- and I get the feeling the numbers are dwindling -- who fancies Google as a new-age white knight jousting with the venomous capitalist serpent that is Microsoft, I offer yet another disheartening bit of evidence: corporate spin. Last week, a Google employee caused a minor ruckus...

11. Wanted: A New Approach to Open Source in Business

    [ Article ] Topic: Collaboration Software | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 08/01/2007

    When the Free Software Foundation released version 3 of the GNU General Public License in June, most in the open source community knew it would make ripples -- and maybe even require significant changes to the way open source companies do business. But, perhaps naively, we didn't expect it to...

12. Even the FSF Finds Some Community Content "Not-Useful"

    [ Blog ] Topic: Collaboration Software | Author: KenHardin | Date Published: 06/20/2007

    In preparation for a conference call I'm moderating tomorrow about the General Public License v3, I've been doing quite a bit of reading on the topic -- and there's a lot of reading to be done, I assure you. The net benefit of my research has been to validate that I'm not the only one who's still...