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Microsoft to allow Eclipse, Mozilla licences for WP7 apps

...in there," Gerloff told ZDNet UK. Noting that GPL licences ensure strong copyleft — a principle mandating the free distribution of even derived works — and said... Read more

9 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Lawyer: Android may be open to Linux copyright issues

...thus distributes Bionic under the BSD licence, a licence that has no copyleft effect," Naughton said. "What Google claims to have done, then, is to... Read more

18 March, 2011 by Ben Woods

Do you need support contacts for good user experience?

...was banning open source phone apps from Windows Phone 7 (just the copyleft licences, but that's enough to cause debate about motives - which are... Read more

25 February, 2011

Mozilla pushes out MPL 2.0

...1998 and revamped only once in 1999. It is a file-level copyleft licence designed to let developers share modifications of MPL-licensed code while... Read more

4 January, 2012 by Ben Woods
DeaDBeeF Free Plugins Pack 1.0.1

DeaDBeeF Free Plugins Pack 1.0.1

...reason why it is distributed separately is to comply with restrictions of copyleft licenses terms.All plugins provided here are optional, and are not required... Read more

25 November, 2011

Stallman: Free software battling for hearts and minds

...of those who use free software. Stallman also pioneered the concept of copyleft, a licensing model in which programs can be freely used, modified and... Read more

6 April, 2011 by Tim Ferguson
Soy Digital 1.0

Soy Digital 1.0

...sin pagar a la SGAE.La mejor seleccin de canciones con Licencia Copyleft con calidad Superior (128kbps). Sin publicidad. Slo msica libre (jazz, electrnica, hip... Read more

5 March, 2011

Stop wearing our DVD code!

...DVD encryption. The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) on Monday added Copyleft to a California lawsuit alleging misappropriation of trade secrets, taking Copyleft founder... Read more

2 August, 2000 by Robert Lemos

Open source software is NOT free!

"Open source software" -- also known as "free software" -- is NOT free. Read more

8 November, 2000 by Rick Lehrbaum

The importance of copyleft

...Copyleft is one of the 20th century's most important technological achievements, on... Read more

21 November, 2009

Open source comes of age

...thinking about collaboration, and especially incremental development, when he drafted the GPL." Copyleft is the core of Stallman's philosophy, and an important part of... Read more

13 March, 2006 by Matthew Broersma

The cost of Freedom

...to promote and support Free Software. As the copyright holder of the copyleft GPL (GNU General Public License), it is responsible for legally enforcing transgressions... Read more

31 December, 2009

Buy Free Software

...monetary value -- what you get is Freedom free; the continued work on copyleft software, so that the software's continued survival is not subject to... Read more

2 December, 2009

FAT replacement licensing must be pragmatic

...publishing their own source code. For these companies, a licence without a copyleft requirement is needed. While this idea horrifies some developers and is less... Read more

2 April, 2009

Free Software Foundation gives annual awards

...a not-for-profit group that promotes flexible copyright — or so-called 'copyleft' — licences for creative works. According to an FSF statement, Creative Commons's... Read more

25 March, 2009 by David Meyer

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