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Midnight at the OASIS: Boycott OASIS? Paul Festa has the story. The leading e-business standards body faces a boycott based on its new intellectual property policy, which endorses the inclusion of technology requiring payment of royalties to its standards. The new policy goes into effect in April.Festa notes thata who's who of open source...; Tags: Lawrence Rosen, OASIS; Blog posts 2005-02-22

GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other software: GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other softwareGentlemen, start your engines.I appreciated this part of the discussion:In his "Comments on GPLv3" essay, open source attorney Lawrence Rosen writes that he believes this clause can even be used to combine GPL licensed code "modules" with code from other licenses...; Tags: software, GPLv3, proprietary code; Discussion threads 2007-06-07
GPLv3 myth#2: You can't mix GPL software with other software: Now that the â€œFinal Draftâ€ of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) is out I thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the least well understood provisions in the license. In part 1, we explored the notion of selling GPL software....; Tags: Programming, Linux, Licenses, General, Community, Commercial; Blog posts 2007-06-07
Microsoft patent non-assertion covenant is remarkable: Microsoft has issued a declaration -- something it calls the Open Specification Promise -- that it won't assert certain Web services patents it holds or may hold in the future. Martin Lamonica reports:Microsoft is pledging not to assert its patents pertaining to nearly three dozen Web services specifications--a move designed...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source; Blog posts 2006-09-13

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