Karsten Gerloff, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe, publishes a blog post on the hearing in the Microsoft v Commission case (T-167/08) dealing with the 899 million euro fine for failing to offer reasonable and non discriminatory condition for revealing secret interoperability information, AKA the "no patent" agreement that the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation has subsequently negotiated to provide same information to Samba Team and others. The article is offered under the condition "Creative Commons Attribution" (CC-BY)
Andy Updegrove has published his own take on the Rambus case, which he was following more closing from an US perspective. Andy is a leading authority when it comes to the law in the standards world, and beyond. We have had the opportunity to discuss this case earlier on, and I find his insight very valuable.
A nicely written, clear and solid article on software development in the Free (Open Source) Software distributed model. Which is one of the possible development models (roughly, the Bazaar).
Fossology is a Free Software application initially developed internally by HP to inspect and audit Free (Open Source) Software and then made a separate project and released under the GNU GPL license. Yesterday it turned 1.0, claiming to be zillion times as fast as the previous version. More from the release of the Fossology people.
In the FTF, we receive all sort of complaints about violations of the GNU GPL and various other licenses. It takes quite a long to the people responding to those inquiries to get everything in good place to properly take actions, whatever this be. The same happens at GPL Violations. In a common effort to simplify the reporting of violations, the FTF and GPL Violations have published a guide that should be the first point of reference for all those who spot problems and try to help.
FSUG Italia and Debian-it 