software freedom

Software Freedom Law Center: "Bradley and Karen discuss non-commercial-only commons licenses, particularly the CC-By-NC license, and how they compare to Free Culture and Free Software licenses, and why some authors pick NC licenses instead of Free Culture/Software ones.

This show was released on Tuesday 1 February 2011; its running time is 00:49:32."

A High School Student's Views on Software Freedom: "The next version of WriteType (1.0.98) is now available for download!

WriteType is a word processor designed to make typing easier and more efficient for young students and students with disabilities."

The Register: "The Software Freedom Conservancy has secured $90,000 in damages for willful infringement of GPLv2, plus nearly $50,000 in costs from Westinghouse Digital Electronics over its illegal distribution of the Unix utility BusyBox."

Linux Insider: "Our primary task is to help projects do what they want to do in making their software work with greater efficiency and increase the prospects that the software will be used by people around the world"

The WordPress community is abuzz with news that the WP Foundation has essentially gone to war with the makers of the Thesis WP theme.

The substance of the argument, as I understand it, is that the makers of WordPress claim that themes, since they rely on WP’s GPL’ed code to run, must be covered by the GPL as well because they are derivative works.

Thesis, on the other hand, is distributed under a commercial license, therefore violating this tenet.

IT World: "Open core, like dual licenses, are all part of the whole "ways-to-make-money-faster-with-open-source-software" genre of business, but they are not the same thing."

Linux Magazine: "It's time for the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and other free software supporters to stop being the Party of Gno, and start thinking of positive ways to push for software freedom."

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."

The Frugal Tech Show: "Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss his love of Corvettes, the Software Freedom Law Center Busybox GPLv2 litigation, Apple's Worldwide Loyalty Team, the recent FaceBook privacy concerns..."

Software Freedom Law Center: "I've been thinking the last few weeks about the evolution of the GPL violation.

After ten years of being involved with GPL enforcement, it seems like a good time to think about how things have changed."