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"We understand now that piracy is a business model. It exists to serve a need in the market for consumers who want TV content on demand. Pirates compete the same way we do — through quality, price, and availability. We don't like the model but we realize it's competitive enough to make it a major competitor going forward."
– Disney co-chair Anne Sweeney
This page collects current and past news items relevant to the perfidies of the Free Software Foundation, the bumbling of its patron saint Richard Stallman, and concerns related to the liberation of the product of the intellect in general (with special emphasis on software). The following links will be listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent placed at the top of the list, for the convenience of repeat visitors. You may use our Contact Page to suggest more news items to be added to this page. Such submissions will go into a moderation queue where they will be evaluated and, if found relevant, added to the list by a real human being. No, really!
Articles:
- BSD — The Dark Horse of Open Source — A lawyer from Australia makes a case for a legal interpretation of the BSD License that is much more strongly Copyleft and much more protective of the openness of BSD licensed source code than is generally assumed. This makes it an even stronger contender against the GPL for open source community mindshare.
- Cipherfunk Shutdown by GPL Police — Complaints from Ubuntu team members led to the cipherfunk independent Ubuntu package repository getting shut down for supposed GPL violations. Specifically, the complaints charged that source code for the packages was not being made available in a timely fashion. (MEPIS News, 24 August 2006)
- A GPL requirement could have a chilling effect on derivative distros — Warren Woodford, founder and project lead for the user-friendly MEPIS Linux distribution, received legal threats from the Free Software Foundation. This was the news item that eventually prompted the formation of the Software Liberation Front. (NewsForge, 27 June 2006)
- Kororaa Accused of Violating GPL — Kororaa was accused of GPL violations for including closed source drivers, compiled against the Linux kernel, with a Linux distribution. (Kororaa News, 12 May 2006)