Friday, April 1st, 2005
Groklaw is carrying a story tonight titled "Hints About GPL3". Well, I had a rather stupid question - why is it that one of the most popular open source licenses is not being developed in the open?
UPDATE: After exchanging emails with some people, it seems that the draft is being ...
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
Andy mentions a rather interesting list message from Sam Varshavchik, the author of Courier (an open source MTA licensed under the GPL):
> I was wondering if (Yahoo"s) Domainkeys is considered to be implemented in Courier.
No. Yahoo has patent claims on Domainkeys, which are not licensed under GPL-compatible terms.
For the curious, ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2003
I saw this in the Wall Street Journal this morning (here is a link, subscription required), before this got posted on SlashDot.
From the WSJ article:
"Now, SCO is preparing to wheel out the software-industry equivalent of a nuclear bomb: It will argue that the GPL itself is invalid, says SCO's lead ...
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