kuhn

Bradley M. Kuhn: What's up with Oracle's relicensing of OpenOffice.org code?

Brad Kuhn: Lots of confusion around android and the GPL

IT Wire: "Well-known free software activist and GPL expert Bradley Kuhn says Red Hat's recent change of policy with regard to provision of its kernel source appears, on the surface, to be GPL-compliant."

Bradley M. Kuhn: "It sometimes causes a chain of events that I call “proprietary drift” — a social phenomena that leads otherwise FaiF codebases to slowly become, in their default use, mostly proprietary packages, at least with regard the features users find most important and necessary."

Bradley M. Kuhn: "Boy, do I hate it when a FLOSS project is given a hard time unfairly. I was this morning greeted with news from many places that OpenSSL, one of the most common FLOSS software libraries used for cryptography, was somehow severely vulnerable."

Bradley M. Kuhn : "I've written about this before, and recently quit using Ubuntu in part because of Canonical's assignment policies (which is, as Mark correctly points out, not that different from other for-profit company's assignment forms.)"

Bradley M. Kuhn : "By the end of 2004, I'd been running Debian ‘testing' on my laptop since around early 2003.

For almost two years, I'd lived with periodic instability — including a week in the spring of 2003 when I couldn't even get X11 started — for the sake of using a distribution that maximally respected software freedom."

ars Technica: "The technical director of the Software Freedom Law Center says that GPL violations are so common that he finds an average of one new violator every day.

In a recent blog entry, Bradley Kuhn offers some guidance about how the community should handle suspected violations."