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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...

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...

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

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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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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