Ever wondered how GPL violations and the other guys in pursue of violations of the Free Software licenses find out who is an infringer?
A very detailed document made by Armijn Hemel of Loohuis Consulting, "The GPL compliance engineering guide", provides an insight and a lot of information. But this is serious stuff, kids, don't try at home unless you are very well trained, of age, and anyway do it at your own risk!
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS), today published a guide to effective compliance with the GNU General Public License (GPL) and related licenses.
The guide provides a basic legal overview of GPL compliance and recommends procedures that companies can implement to avoid violations. It also discusses effective response to enforcement actions by copyright holders.
Almost four years after a Decision of the European Commission found Microsoft in blatant breach of antitrust laws, more than nine years after the initial complaint was filed by Sun Microsystems, we are seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. Today Microsoft and the Samba Team struck a deal to create the WSPP agreement.
Eben Moglen's Software Freedom Law Centre will host the first Annual Legal Summit for Software Freedom this fall. The Summit will have two parts: a closed session in the morning for a private meeting of the "world's foremost FOSS attorneys", and an open session in the afternoon consisting of free legal presentations to the public.
Introducing the website by Mark Webbink on legal aspects of Free Software (AKA "open source"), such as licensing, software patents, copyright of Free Software.
Mark has been doing great work with Red Hat and I worked with him during the long months of preparing the Microsoft case. He is incredibly knowledgeable about these matters and has a talent for writing about them. Nowadays Mark is in private practice and teaches at Duke University too. He is also member of the Board of the Software Freedom Law Center of my friend Eben Moglen (see the weblinks).
No doubt this is an important resource for all those searching information about legal aspect of Free Software. Don't miss it!
Eben Moglen's Software Freedom Law Centre will host the first Annual Legal Summit for Software Freedom this fall. The Summit will have two parts: a closed session in the morning for a private meeting of the "world's foremost FOSS attorneys", and an open session in the afternoon consisting of free legal presentations to the public.