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- Watching the watchers of the GPL
- Ah, the GPL. The GNU Public License. It's probably one of the most controversial topics in all of the IT world. What is it and how is it enforced? Who backs it and who defends it? And who watches the watchers? Now there's the real rub. We all know...
- Tags: GPL, Groklaw, Open Source, Jack Wallen
- Blog posts 2008-04-26
- DVDStyler (6)
- DVDStyler is a crossplatform DVD Authoring System. It is free software distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL). Features: you can drag and drop MPEG files directly; you can import image file for background; you can create NTSC/PAL menus; you can place text and images anywhere on the menu screen...
- Tags: GPL, Movie, Alex Thüring, DVDStyler, Open Source
- Software downloads 2008-04-29
- Top 10 IT headlines for May 9 -- IE8 details, Wall Street's sway over tech, GPL relevance, L'Affair Microhoo
- Top 10 IT headlines Microsoft shares more IE8 security details (ZDNet) Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector? (ZDNet) Does the GPL still matter? (Techdirt) Underground marketplace sells your personal data for a hefty profit (TechRepublic) A rundown of 'L'Affair Microhoo'...
- Tags: GPL, TechRepublic Inc., CNET Networks Inc., Information Technology, Sway, Wall, Strategy, Open Source, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- GHEncryption
- A open-source, plain-text encryption program. No guarantees about level of security. This software is under the GNU GPL. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: GPL, Guarantee, Glenn Hartmann, Open Source
- Software downloads 2008-02-19
- Busybox wraps up second lawsuit against Xterasys
- Programmers behind Busybox have settled a second lawsuit, this time against Xterasys, for violating a GPL license. According CNET News.com: "As a result of the settlement, Xterasys has agreed to cease all binary distribution of BusyBox until SFLC confirms it has published complete corresponding source...
- Tags: GPL, Lawsuit, Source Code, Compliance, Programmer, Busybox, Xterasys, Open Source, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- VirtualDub (7)
- VirtualDub is a video capture and processing utility licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is designed to be a general utility that can trim and clean up video before exporting to tape or processing with another program. It does not possess the editing power of a general-purpose...
- Tags: GPL, Video, VirtualDub, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-12-14
- ASUS Eee PC accused of violating GPL
- Some members of the Linux community have complained that the Eee PC sub-notebook from ASUS may have violated the spirit of the GPL (General Public License). The point of contention is that the Eee PC has not included the required source code with the installed Xandros Linux...
- Tags: ASUS, GPL, PC, Open Source, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-25
- Monsoon GPL infringement lawsuit draws to a close
- The landmark lawsuit brought against Monsoon Multimedia by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) on behalf of the two principal developers of BusyBox has come to a close. The case is significant in that it marks the first time in the United States that a...
- Tags: GPL, Lawsuit, BusyBox, Open Source, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- First lawsuit on GPL violation filed
- Network World has news of what may well be the first lawsuit of its kind in the United States. Excerpt from the article: The SFLC filed the suit on Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Monsoon Multimedia...
- Tags: GPL, Lawsuit, Source Code, Network World, Suit, Open Source, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-09-23
- Monsoon GPL infringement lawsuit draws to a close
- Just how often do you reckon GPL infringements occur?
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, paulmah@..., GPL
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- First lawsuit on GPL violation filed
- Share with us the guidelines in your company with regards to the use and/or modification of open-sourced products.
- Tags: paulmah@..., GPL
- Discussion threads 2007-09-23
- The truth about viruses
- Yeah but . . .. . . what's Patch Tuesday all about then?I am a strong proponent of Open Source. And, I tend to agree that there are more security holes than actual functionality in Microsoft's OSes, browsers, etc. This is a sad consequence of how these systems evolved.But, how...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, albert@..., Linux, GNU, virus, Patch Tuesday, GPL
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- How copyright and licensing issues affect programming work
- What ever happened to the Perl vs. C# text processing shootout I promised? Well, I will tell you what happened.Something had been bothering me for ages, but I could not put my finger on it. As I sat down to write the code, I finally remembered what it was: I am...
- Tags: Project, Web, Patent, Code, Microsoft Corp., Image, Programming, Justin James
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Price of Freedom
- I got asked an interesting question today:The only thing why (at least) I encode the footer is to prevent people from removing my designer link. I usually spend around 6 hours designing the graphics and coding the theme and some people simply take my link off and some of them...
- Tags: User Submission
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- The "tivoization-less" GPL
- "Without a whimper" isn't entirely trueWhile it's true that there was not a flood of projects jumping over to GPL3 upon it's first week in the wild, Palamida tracked that 119 had moved over as of Friday, and had done so as a show of support for the license and...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Melisa@..., GPL, database
- Discussion threads 2007-07-09
- Neo 1973: Open Source phone, open source sexy
- The iPhone. Ah the iPhone. Who of us stood in line, like a Star Wars fan boy, waiting to lay their eyes and hands on what seems to be the be-all, end-all salvation of the tech world?Well I for one didn't. Don't get me wrong, there were moments when I...
- Tags: Open Source, Gpl, Linux, Get Jacked, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- The "tivoization-less" GPL
- So version 3 of the GPL is out! Sadly the announcement came without out so much as a whimper from the world. That's too bad because there is one thing about the new GPL that any champion of open source software will cheer about: no more tivoization of open source...
- Tags: Open Source, Linux, Gpl, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- VirtualDub (64-bit) (6)
- VirtualDub is a video capture and processing utility licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is designed to be a general utility that can trim and clean up video before exporting to tape or processing with another program. It does not possess the editing power of a general-purpose...
- Tags: Corporate communications, GPL, video capture, MPEG-1, video, 64-bit
- Software downloads 2007-06-05
- VirtualDub (32-bit) (6)
- VirtualDub is a video capture and processing utility licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is designed to be a general utility that can trim and clean up video before exporting to tape or processing with another program. It does not possess the editing power of a general-purpose...
- Tags: Corporate communications, GPL, video capture, video, MPEG-1, 32-bit
- Software downloads 2007-06-05
- Newest GPL draft leaves Novell in the clear
- mixed bagThe new draft of the GPLv3 is a mixed bag. While I applaud the patent-related changes to the GPLv3 draft, and support the goals intended by them, the fact remains that other proposed changes to the GPL with version 3 only increase the problematic nature of the GPL...
- Tags: apotheon, Novell Inc., GPLv3, GPL, GPL Draft
- Discussion threads 2007-06-04
