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Microsoft funds questionable study attacking GPL 3 draft process

05/23/2007  
Relevance: 8.03
A study (PDF) funded by Microsoft and carried out by Harvard Business School professor Alan MacCormack aims to determine what kind of features and protections developers want in version 3 of the widely-used General Public License (GPL 3). The study, which uses extremely questionable methodology, concludes that open-source software developers don't want the GPL 3 to impose extensive patent licensing requirements or prevent agreements like the controversial cross-licensing deal between Novell and Microsoft.
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Sharing medical software: FOSS licensing in medicine

06/19/2007  
Relevance: 7.54
I have written a short guide to software licensing in medicine: Sharing medical software: FOSS licensing in medicine. This covers the problems of license proliferation, the issue of proprietarization and several other key licensing related issues.This is a work in progress. Please help me make this a valuable resource, by providing your comments and feedback.-Trotter
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Giving some Juce to cross-platform tools

12/19/2006  
Relevance: 6.92
Hands onLast month I looked at Qt, the popular C++ cross-platform framework which underpins the KDE desktop, and a whole lot more. This time, I'm continuing that same theme by taking a look at another cross-platform C++ library called Juce (OK, no jokes about Apple Juce!)
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Sun CEO Mum on GPLv3, Reveals Licensing Hopes

07/01/2007  
Relevance: 6.90
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz will not discuss GNU general public license version 3, but will share his fantasy concerning open source licensing.
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Xandros CEO doesn't agree that Linux is patent violator

06/09/2007  
Relevance: 6.79
Xandros CEO Andreas Typaldos said Thursday his company did not agree that its Linux distribution violates any Microsoft patents nor did the software giant ask Xandros to do so as part of the patent cross-licensing deal the two signed Monday.
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Avoiding BSD v. GPL licensing issues

12/01/2007  
Relevance: 6.78
In the wake of recent flareups over the inclusion of BSD licensed code in GPL licensed programs, a little extra vigilance can go a long way. Recently, Fedora package managers manually reviewing code licenses in a new version of Joop Stakenborg's popular XLog program used by amateur radio enthusiasts around the globe to record their contacts discovered a change in the licensing of one of the included files which impacted the licensing of the program as a whole.
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Distribution Release: Cross Linux From Scratch 1.0.0

09/27/2006  
Relevance: 6.65
Jeremy Utley has announced the release of Cross Linux From Scratch (CLFS) 1.0.0, a book that teaches how to make a cross-compiler and the necessary tools to build a basic system on a different architecture:"The CLFS Development team is pleased to announce the final release of CLFS 1.0.0, code-name 'Bender'. This release features Glibc 2.4, GCC 4.1.1, Binutils 2.17, and supports the x86, x86-64, SPARC, PowerPC, PPC64, MIPS, MIPS64, and Alpha, including multilib on those architectures that support it. Cross-building is also supported, even from non-Linux host systems such as Solaris, *BSD, and OS X."
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Trolltech pushes Qtuopia and Qt

07/18/2007  
Relevance: 6.56
Capturing developers' hearts and minds. I'm just contemplating my notes from a roundtable hosted by Trolltech product director Naren Karattup, entitledUnleashing the creative power of the developer— you unleash wild animals, don't you? I think I'm bit nervous. What's interesting about Trolltech, apart from its cross-platform development tools, is its dual-licensing approach to open source software development.
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MS climbs-down over Vista licensing

11/03/2006  
Relevance: 6.51
Just in time for 30 November releaseMicrosoft has backed down to fierce criticism over proposed licensing terms for Windows Vista to allow users to uninstall the forthcoming operating system and install it on another PC.
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A Quick Look at Mono Licensing and Microsoft Licensing

11/30/2007  
Relevance: 6.47
When .NET went Shared Source Miguel de Icaza talked about what it all meant. Looking at the Microsoft Reference License you find some very brow-raising phrases discussing software patents.
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