Microsoft In Dispute With Children's Charity For Dodging Windows Fees
News In the midst of an impending antitrust trial, Microsoft is anxiously trying to solve a licensing dispute with a children's charity, which it last week threatened with legal action for distributing recycled computers to disadvantaged communities...
[July 16, 2001, 11:56]
US Legislators Seek To Ban Spyware
News A recent CNET News.com investigation found at least one instance of a company distributing antispyware tools that secretly installed additional software, viewed by many as spyware. That company, called Spyban, has since ceased distributing its...
[March 4, 2004, 8:00]
Defender Of The Linux Faith
News When we found out about Sitecom's GPL violation, my lawyer asked them to sign a declaration to stop distributing software that didn't comply with the GPL license. In some cases we got an out-of-court agreement and the company agreed to stop...
[March 17, 2005, 12:35]
IBM Launches Linux Counterattack On SCO
News Distributing a product is not the same as contributing to a product," Stowell said Friday. In other words, the mere act of distributing GPL-covered code isn't sufficient; the copyright holder also has to deliberately release the code as open-source...
[July 28, 2003, 9:06]
Opponents Attack SCO's GPL 'nonsense'
News However, he wrote, SCO's argument would also invalidate every other open-source licence, as well as Microsoft's Shared Source licence and its method of distributing the Windows operating system. The Free Software Foundation has harshly criticised a...
[August 19, 2003, 12:25]
JBoss Downplays Open-source Code 'plagiarism'
News It can be a simple matter to correct code plagiarism, Labourey said -- a criticism of the far-reaching actions pursued by the SCO Group against Unix and Linux vendors who SCO claims are distributing operating systems that contain code to which it...
[November 12, 2003, 17:20]
Court Order Halts Adobe's InDesign Sales
News The injunction prevents Adobe from distributing its InDesign 1.5 layout software and requires the removal of all unsold copies from the marketplace. Trio has charged that Adobe's use of a database engine called C-Index violates its license with...
[December 20, 2001, 6:31]
Fancy A $10m Open Source Insurance Policy?
News In particular, companies may infringe on copyright laws when distributing their own software-which could include open source products-to business partners or customers, Egger said. The insurance will cover up to $10 million in damages, including...
[November 1, 2005, 9:45]
Google Joins Open Source-patent Network
News That's because Google and Yahoo are selling a service, rather than distributing products that use open-source software. In particular, Google — along with other internet companies, such as Yahoo — is exempt from open-source licence provisions that...
[August 8, 2007, 9:34]
Music Firms Still Don't Get It
News And indeed, many Napster abusers perverted the concept into a rationale for distributing music without a licence. I store them on my hard drive, catalogue them with some software and then take them with me in my portable MP3 player.
[October 19, 2001, 14:22]
BitTorrent Creator Teams Up With Hollywood
News BitTorrent Inc.discourages the use of its technology for distributing films without a licence to do so," Cohen said in a statement. While many of these are legal files, such as open source software packages, inevitably the search engine also found...
[November 23, 2005, 8:10]
Microsoft Claims Immunity From GPLv3
News Novell is currently distributing Suse under the GPLv2 licence, but plans to move to version 3. Microsoft has issued a statement saying it is "not a party to" the new open-source licence, GPL version 3, apparently in a bid to escape liabilities that...
[July 6, 2007, 17:47]
Microsoft Fires Back At Sun In Java Case
News Sun's case builds on a previous legal assault on its rival, which began in October 1997 and alleged that Microsoft violated its licence agreement by distributing incompatible versions of Java and deceptively promoting those versions as compatible.
[February 24, 2003, 8:10]
Java Spat Brews Up Court Battle
News Sun's case also builds on its previous legal assault on its rival, which began in October 1997 and alleged that Microsoft violated its licence agreement by distributing incompatible versions of Java and deceptively promoted those versions as...
[December 3, 2002, 9:08]
IBM Moves To Block SCO's Linux
News IBM has asked a federal court to bar the SCO Group, a Linux adversary, from distributing any Linux software, in the latest filing in their ongoing legal battle. The motion says that by distributing Linux software governed by the GNU General Public...
[August 20, 2004, 10:50]
FSF Disputes Anti-GPLv3 Arguments
News We hope this policy will thwart the ways some companies wish to "use" free software — namely, distributing it to you while controlling what you can do with it," the foundation said. The foundation is seeking to update its core licence to prevent...
[September 27, 2006, 9:40]
Software Developer Wins Theft Case
News Kelty specialises in software for medical devices and had complained to Fast that his programs were being used and distributed without licence by a major player within his field. The Federation Against Software Theft (Fast) is hailing a victory for...
[April 8, 2003, 15:10]
SCO Sets Steep Charge For Linux Licence
News In a teleconference with media and financial analysts, SCO chief executive Darl McBride bluntly accused Red Hat of distributing Linux software that illegally copies SCO's Unix code. Software maker SCO Group fired back at Linux leader Red Hat on...
[August 6, 2003, 9:10]
Open-source Legal Body Sues Over GPL Violation
News The licence also requires anyone distributing GPL software, in an executable form that a computer can run, to make the complete source code available. A legal team enforcing the most widely used licence in the open-source and free-software movement...
[October 1, 2007, 15:08]
