Business of Open Source

A Bit of a Licence

Monday, 26 October 2009 04:49 LinuxJournal

One of the striking aspects of the free software community is its obsession with licences. It's as if within every hacker there's a lawyer struggling to get out.

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SCO Ousts Darl... But The Saga Continues

Tuesday, 20 October 2009 04:08 InformationWeek

Just when you think the saga of SCO can't get any weirder, it does. The SCO Group announced in the last few days it was firing Darl McBride, but also "restructuring" and also "looking to raise additional funding and sell non-core assets to bolster working capital."

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GPLv2 Ambiguities Linger On

Friday, 16 October 2009 04:47 InformationWeek

Scarcely a week goes by without some criticism or analysis of open source licensing, and this time around it's whether or not the GPLv2's "legally ambiguous".

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Notes from FOSSBazaar Meeting at Open World Forum

Thursday, 15 October 2009 03:28 Martin Michlmayr

We had a very productive FOSSBazaar meeting at Open World Forum in Paris earlier this month. The slides of the presentations are available and here are some notes about the meeting.

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