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Encourage the USPTO to stop issuing software patents; deadline September 27
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Brett Smith
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Sep 23, 2010
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Sep 24, 2010 12:32 PM
Following the Supreme Court's decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plans to release new
guidance as to which patent applications will be accepted, and which
will not. As part of this process, they are seeking input from the
public about how that guidance should be structured.
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FSF responds to Oracle v. Google and the threat of software patents
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Brett Smith
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Sep 08, 2010
As you likely heard on any number of news sites, Oracle has filed suit
against Google, claiming that Android infringes some of its Java-related copyrights and patents.
Too little information is available
about the copyright infringement claim to say much about it yet; we
expect we'll learn more as the case proceeds. But nobody deserves to
be the victim of software patent aggression, and Oracle is wrong to
use its patents to attack Android.
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Google's updated WebM license
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Brett Smith
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Jun 04, 2010
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Jun 04, 2010 03:26 PM
Google just updated the license for their WebM Project to make it GPL-compatible.
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More about the App Store GPL Enforcement
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Brett Smith
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May 26, 2010
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May 26, 2010 10:24 PM
Since our announcement yesterday that we were pursuing a compliance
case involving GNU Go in Apple's App Store, we've received a lot of
questions about the details of the conflict between the GPL and
Apple's terms of service. For those of you who are interested, we're
providing those details here.
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GPL Enforcement in Apple's App Store
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Brett Smith
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May 25, 2010
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May 27, 2010 07:12 AM
An iPhone port of GNU Go is currently being distributed through Apple's App Store. However, this distribution is not in compliance with the GNU GPL. The primary problem is that Apple imposes numerous legal restrictions on use and distribution of GNU Go through the iTunes Store Terms of Service, which is forbidden by section 6 of GPLv2. So today we have written to Apple and asked them to come into compliance. We would be happy to see Apple distribute these programs under the GPL's terms, but unfortunately, it seems much more likely that they'll simply make the problem go away by removing GNU Go from the App Store.
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Introducing RDF for GNU Licenses
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Brett Smith
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May 17, 2010
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last modified
Sep 01, 2010 03:57 PM
For the past few months, the Compliance Lab has been working with Creative Commons on a new project, and it's just been released. I'm happy to announce that Resource Description Framework (RDF) metadata now accompanies all of the GNU licenses.
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Ryzom is free software! What can we do from here?
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Brett Smith
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May 06, 2010
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May 06, 2010 08:27 AM
Ryzom is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG),
where players work together to explore a fantasy world and set out on various quests. Today, the Ryzom team has released the game as free software: both the client and server programs have been released under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, while its models, textures, and other art are covered by CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Information about the H.264 patent license
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Brett Smith
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Apr 30, 2010
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last modified
Jan 17, 2014 07:00 PM
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FSF Compliance Lab helps CiviCRM establish licensing best practices
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Brett Smith
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Apr 14, 2010
Today the FSF announced that one of our high-priority projects has
been fulfilled: CiviCRM provides an excellent donor and contact
management system for nonprofit organizations. As part of the
preparation for this announcement, the Compliance Lab helped the
project handle its licensing issues more consistently.
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FSF Advocates Free Software for U.S. IPEC Joint Strategic Plan
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Brett Smith
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Apr 12, 2010
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Apr 12, 2010 03:24 PM
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