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| Why does the GPL v2 licence need updating? |
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"GPL version two was developed in 1991. The community was very different then. It was much smaller. There were probably hundreds of Free Software packages instead of tens of thousands. And there was no free operating system." |
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| Open Letter on Software Patents from Linux developers |
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Newsforge and the EFFI feature an open letter by Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox on software patents. The European Union votes on software patents this week. |
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| Hans Reiser (ReiserFS) interviewed |
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Slashdot features a Hans Reiser interview where he responds to some interesting questions about ReiserFS, starting and managing a free software project, earning a living with it, and some Linux kernel development politics. |
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Don Marti is the editor of LinuxJournal and the mastermind behind the Burnallgifs campaign. He has strong views on free software, software patentability and the freedom of the Internet, and was interviewed by greplaw (harvard.edu)... |
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| Free Software licensing quiz |
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| LindowsOS moving toward GPL compliance |
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The General Public License (GPL) is a license used by free software (documentation, ...) developers. I often link to the original version at the Free Software Foundation, and just as often I forget to. This time I placed the license itself here for those interested. |
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| Community commentary on freedom |
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Newsforge guest writer Ronald D. Stephens (open source advocate) posted a 'community commentary' called: "A manifesto on freedom". Covering various areas - philosophy, politics, business, technology, ... - this paper provides some food for thought. |
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| Richard Stallman (RMS) interviewed |
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"And
if you make a copy for your friend, they call you a "pirate" and put
you in prison. Just imagine, they say that helping your neighbor is
the moral equivalent of attacking a ship!
That is a perverse view of
morality."
Taken out of context by yours truly from a good, short RMS interview by Juraj Bednar. |
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