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SFLC Takes on Consumer Electronics Companies: Will it Help?

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is taking the gloves off. The SFLC has filed suit against 14 companies, alleging that each of the companies violates the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). According to the complaint and media … Continue reading →

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Eben Moglen to European Commission: Have Faith in the GPLv2

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

Another voice heard on the European Commission’s objection to Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems. This time, Eben Moglen has weighed in with an analysis of the objections related to the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). Moglen disagrees with … Continue reading →

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RMS says GPLv2 isn’t good enough to protect MySQL (but it is)

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

I was surprised, to say the least, this morning to read Simon Phipps’ tweet that “Richard Stallman and others declare GPL inadequate to protect software freedom.” Lack of caffeine, maybe? Nope. Stallman and Knowledge Ecology International really have sent a … Continue reading →

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