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Sony DRM CDs 'may Violate LGPL'
Talkback What about the GPL violations as highlighted on http://tinyurl.com/dkhtm ?
[November 22, 2005, 9:46]
Sony DRM CDs 'may Violate LGPL'
Talkback Sorry, but I cannot see the "may" anywhere in the reality.
[November 20, 2005, 13:54]
JBoss-Microsoft Partnership Announced
News Most of JBoss' software is governed by the LGPL . Unlike the GPL, the LGPL makes it possible to tightly integrate LGPL code with software that uses proprietary code. Two companies on opposite sides of the open source philosophical divide, Microsoft...
[September 27, 2005, 17:10]
MySQL Sheds Light On Open-source Rift
News Previously, though, the libraries were covered by the Lesser General Public License (LGPL). An essential difference between the two licences is that proprietary or other non-GPL software may be tightly linked to LGPL software.
[March 15, 2004, 7:35]
GPLv3 Draft A Week Away
News The group also is working on revising the Lesser General Public License (LGPL), a variant that allows tighter links between open source and proprietary software modules. LGPL drafts may be presented after the GPL revision process begins.
[January 11, 2006, 15:35]
Open Source Fans To Emulate .Net
News The company has gone as far as prohibiting programmers from using some Microsoft programming software in conjunction with GPL or LGPL programming tools. DotGNU and Mono are covered by GPL and LGPL, according to Ximian and the Freedom Software...
[July 10, 2001, 12:06]
SCO Unveils Code 'evidence'
Talkback GPL and LGPL from the Free Software Foundation are popularly used with Linux.however much UNIX code is licensed via a modified BSD style license. This article fails to mention that there are many types of open source software licenses.
[October 1, 2003, 19:11]
JBoss Hopes To Expand 'ownership' Of Open Source
Talkback As a matter of fact, all code by JBoss is released completely afaik) under the LGPL. Microsoft fans ? JBoss is far less of a proprietary company than Suse, Mandrake, Redhat, IBM, or Novell. The use of the word 'own' in this article should be...
[April 2, 2004, 17:56]
OpenOffice.org
Downloads Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL and SISSL open-source protocols, OpenOffice.org allows any knowledgeable developer to benefit from the source. OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project.
[May 8, 2008, 3:47]
OpenOffice.org
Downloads Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL and SISSL open-source protocols, OpenOffice.org allows any knowledgeable developer to benefit from the source. OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project.
[May 8, 2008, 3:53]
JBoss Downplays Open-source Code 'plagiarism'
News First, it moves the code from the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL) which JBoss uses, to the Apache licence. The LGPL used by JBoss, like other open-source licences, does have the benefit that people can take the code and develop it further, so long...
[November 12, 2003, 17:20]
JBoss Seam Knits AJAX And Java Together
News The framework, written in Java and released under the LGPL, is aimed at making developing interactive web applications easier by providing a standard set of UI widgets and back-end classes. JBoss has joined in the AJAX game with the launch of an...
[June 16, 2006, 18:00]
JBoss Downplays Open-source Code 'plagiarism'
Talkback JBoss has the right to distribute the code under the LGPL; that doesn't mean that JBoss owns the copyright on all the code. None of the examples hold up to even brief scrutiny. The three named exhibits include two which appear to be code JBoss took...
[November 14, 2003, 22:56]
Linux Scrubs Up For Medical Role
News Written in C++ and Python, ParaGUI runs on Windows, Linux, BeOS, MacOS and others; it's licensed under open-source LGPL -- meaning others can develop commercial applications with it -- and is of course freely available on the Internet.
[June 13, 2002, 15:37]
Symbian Goes For The Suits
News On Monday, Symbian released its Open Programming Language (OPL) development tool for Symbian OS version 6.0 and 6.1 under the open-source LGPL licence. Symbian, the smartphone operating system developer, is to revamp its enterprise strategy at its...
[April 28, 2003, 16:34]
Sun Lays An Open Source Licence To Rest
News Retiring the SISSL means that the OpenOffice.org software will be covered by just one licence, the LGPL, according to the project's Web site. Sun is recommending that nobody use an open-source licence it created, a small step in a broader push to...
[September 5, 2005, 9:35]
Open Source Community Wooed By Microsoft
Talkback I'm using SourceForge.net and all the programming tools are either LGPL, GPL, MIT or BSD licenses. All Microsoft's actions since 2001, have been nothing but "smoke and mirrors". They only play the open-source card because they know they have no...
[June 29, 2006, 23:50]
Zattoo Puts Live TV On The Desktop
Blog Haven't looked into the client in too much depth yet - it seems to be using the FAAD audio decoder and FFmpeg for video, both LGPL - but it works fine. A bit puzzling, this. Zattoo is a free live streaming TV service which, like so many, has its...
[April 29, 2008, 14:18]
GNOME To Fish In Embedded Linux Pond
News The entire GNOME developer platform is licensed under the LGPL, which allows third party developers to build commercial closed applications with it. GNOME developers are making various changes to the open source desktop environment that should make...
[October 10, 2005, 16:35]
OpenOffice Denies Rift With Sun
News While the subject of a foundation has been raised, the fact is that Sun has already 'let go' of OpenOffice.org by purchasing StarDivision in 1999 and releasing the source code to StarOffice as free/open source software under the LGPL, making the...
[February 10, 2006, 15:45]
