Showing posts with label licences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label licences. Show all posts
19 February 2010

Open Data: A Question of (Panton) Principles

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Since I have been banging on about the need for open data in science for some time, you won't be surprised to learn that I am in agreeme...
09 May 2009

Should Software Developers Be Liable for their Code?

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Should Microsoft pay for the billions of dollars of damage that flaws in its software have caused around the world? It might have to, if a n...
31 January 2009

I'm Sorry, Joi, I Can't Do That

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Is Joi Ito barking ? In the future according to Ito: "Every object on the Internet will have a licence and copyright information and th...
14 August 2008

Basis of Free Software Licences Upheld in US

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On Open Enterprise blog .
18 June 2008

Whatever Happened to the GNU GPLv3?

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On Open Enterprise blog .
09 May 2008

Death of a Meme: GPL Wins in Court Again

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On Open Enterprise blog .
24 April 2008

Russkies Under the Radar

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Russia is one of the countries I try to follow as closely as I can in terms of free software because it is both (a) potentially a huge marke...
17 April 2008

The Evolution of Knowledge

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This is moving in the right direction - towards *all* knowledge, freely online for *everyone* to use in *any* way - rather like free softwa...
22 December 2007

Citizendium Goes CC-BY-SA

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Good news : In a much-awaited move, the non-profit Citizendium (http://www.citizendium.org/) encyclopedia project announced that it has adop...
02 December 2007

Closing the Open Content Schism

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Nowadays we are used to content being released under a Creative Commons licence, which has become the kind of de facto free licence for con...

Badgeware Comes in from the Cold

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Has badgeware - software whose licences requires attribution to be displayed in all copies - gone legit? Roberto Galoppini seems to think ...
31 August 2007

The Other Free Software Lawyer

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There seems to be some magic about free software: whenever a certain class of (intelligent) lawyer comes into contact with it, it redeems th...
10 July 2007

Joining the GPLv3 Samba

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So Samba has officially joined the GPLv3 dance. It's certainly a biggie, and I'm sure that over the coming months more and more su...
22 May 2007

The Joy (and Utility) of FUD

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As I've written elsewhere , Microsoft's FUD is more interesting for what it says about the company's deepest fears than for its ...
04 April 2007

Oh: And I Thought IBM Got It

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One of the key moments in the rise of open source was IBM's announcement on 10 January 2000 that it would be supporting GNU/Linux across...
03 April 2007

EUPL Gets the Big "Yes"...Well, One of Them

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So EUPL - the European Union Public Licence - is now approved , by the European Commission at least: The Commission has approved the EUPL on...

Licence to Thrill

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As I've written elsewhere , licences are not peripheral to free software, they lie at its very heart. So argy-bargy over the new draft...
07 October 2006

Locking Down the Digital Cat

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This is what happens when the genetic code of an animal matters, as here, with "the world's first scientifically-proven hypoaller...
19 August 2006

A Licence to Print...Licences

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Licensing lies at the heart of free software. Indeed, it could be argued that Richard Stallman's greatest legacy is the GNU GPL, since ...