The Gnu General Public License (GPL) holds an amazing position as the premier free and open source software license but this position may be slipping since its move to version 3 in 2007. In an article entitled Does GPL still matter? Yahoo Tech News reports: A June study conducted by Black Duck Software, an open source [...]

Finally finished the mind-numbingly boring work of reading proofs for a manual on the GPL license. It’s so boring that I have broken records in procrastination but today surrounded by loud music I stayed at home and finished. In front of me is my latest acquisitio, a color lithograph graphic by Claude Weisbuch which I [...]

This is a bit of a late heads up but is interesting if you happen to be in Oslo this evening. Richard Stallman will give a talk on “Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks – Free software and beyond” at Storsalen, Chateau Neuf (Slemdalsveien 15), Oslo. He will be introduced by Gisle [...]

Bruce Perens has written an interesting article about combining GPL with proprietary software the main point of discussion concerns the problem of combining software under different licenses in embedded devices. The article ends with a paragraph on what not to do: Don’t assume that you can put proprietary kernel drivers in a run-time loadable kernel [...]

The Software Freedom Law Centre has put out a guide to help with GPL compliance. The guide is mainly for software vendors but it’s an interesting read for most of us interested in the topic. A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance (August 26, 2008) is written by Bradley M. Kuhn, Aaron Williamson & Karen M. [...]

The Software Freedom Law Center has published version 1.5 of A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects. Here’s an excerpt from the press release: The guide, written by members of SFLC’s staff, covers a variety of legal topics and their practical application to free software development. These topics include copyrights and [...]

Richard Stallman will be in Göteborg giving a public talk entitled: The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of [...]

On the 26th February at 5.30 pm – the Free Software Foundation Europe, Unionen and the Royal Institute of Technology are offering a lecture by Richard Stallman: The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history of [...]

Creative Commons released an Add-in for OpenOffice.org which allows users to select and embed a Creative Commons license in documents. Based on work completed as part of the Google Summer of Code by Cassio Melo, the add-in supports Writer (word processing documents), Calc (spreadsheets) and Impress (presentations). The Add-in is available without charge, and is [...]

The Free Software Foundation have created a Quick Guide to GPLv3 and this is something of a “must read”… no seriously it is…

On the 7-8 December Göteborg will be hosting the first Free Software Conference Scandinavia (FSCONS). The event, which is already promising to become an important event on the Free Software calendar, is a good mix of techies and freedom folks. While the techies will be able to enjoy talks on squid, gtk, GnuTLS and OpenMoko [...]