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Mobile Phone Operator Increases Productivity, Decreases IT Costs With Licence Agreement
White Papers After entering into a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, it was able to deploy a new, simplified infrastructure that improved collaboration, increased productivity, and helped employees share information.
[May 7, 2008, 0:00]
Netscape Loses Privacy Dispute
News Netscape Communications customers suing the company for privacy invasion are not bound by an end-user licence agreement forcing them into arbitration, a US federal appeals court panel ruled on Tuesday.
[October 2, 2002, 9:28]
NHS Renews Microsoft Agreement
News Connecting for Health (CfH), the NHS national IT upgrade programme, has renewed its custom licence agreement with Microsoft covering the provision of desktop services over the next three years. The renewal is the first of the three-year...
[July 17, 2007, 13:41]
Linux Developer Resolves GPL Dispute
News The Free Software Foundation says it has come to an agreement with FSMLabs resolving accusations that the software company was contravening the licence that governs the Linux kernel. The FSF and FSMLabs have reached an agreement in principle on a...
[September 18, 2001, 15:06]
Court Sets Back Sun's Java Push
News But the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, upheld a requirement that Microsoft cease distributing certain copies of its own Java virtual machine (VM), saying that the company "exceeded the scope" of a January 2001 licence...
[June 27, 2003, 8:41]
Microsoft Won't Dance With Samba
News The proposed licence, called the WSPP Development Agreement, requires the payment of royalties to Microsoft to grant licensees the right to use Microsoft technical documentation to implement Microsoft server protocols, according to licence...
[January 28, 2005, 13:20]
Microsoft Struggles To Work With Open Source
News The EC is concerned that open source vendors are excluded from the licence agreement, as companies are not permitted to release the source code of products created using the licence. Microsoft has also made it easier for companies to evaluate the...
[April 5, 2005, 18:20]
Nigerian Company Seeks $20m OLPC 'damages'
News Documents published on open-source legal site Groklaw indicate that solicitors acting on behalf of Lancor demanded $20m (£10m) in damages from OLPC on 6 August, 2007, claiming that patents registered by Lancor for its Konyin Multilingual Keyboard...
[January 3, 2008, 11:12]
SCO Wants To Undermine Linux Foundation
Talkback They have in fact LICENSED the use of COPYRIGHT software under certain SPECIFIED conditions, which is all any licence agreement does. The GPL is not a COPYRIGHT (that is what is stated in the source code, for example, by the named authors), ibut...
[October 30, 2003, 17:03]
Microsoft Defends Windows CE Code-share
News In a teleconference, Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief technical officer for Advanced Strategies and Policy, confirmed that the agreement requires developers to licence any derivative code back to Microsoft for use in future versions of Windows CE.
[April 10, 2003, 13:28]
Greeting Card Virus Brings Bad Tidings
News Without the licence agreement, the program would be considered a virus, but with the code wrapped in what could be a prosecution-proof vest, Gullotto is careful to avoid the term. Yet the creators -- Permissioned Media, a company apparently based...
[November 13, 2002, 11:28]
Microsoft Accused Of Staking Claim To The Internet
News In the email he states that Microsoft's Royalty Free Protocol License Agreement is offering for licence 130 Internet protocols, many of which are RFC documents -- notes that are submitted to the IETF by various individuals, and may become Internet...
[November 10, 2004, 11:43]
Netscape Ruling A Boost For Privacy
News Before downloading the software, the user need not view any licence agreement terms or even any reference to a licence agreement," Hellerstein wrote. However, the Netscape case differs from traditional click-wrap cases because people who obtained...
[July 10, 2001, 15:59]
Microsoft Claims Immunity From GPLv3
News Microsoft has said it has no legal obligations under GPLv3, and does not require a licence under GPL to carry on its Novell agreement, "even if Novell chooses to distribute GPLv3 code in the future. Microsoft has issued a statement saying it is...
[July 6, 2007, 17:47]
EU Rejects Microsoft's Licence Offer
News The commission is also concerned that open source vendors are "excluded" from the licence agreement. The licence agreement is also not flexible enough, according to the commission. The European Commission has rejected Microsoft's proposed server...
[March 18, 2005, 9:40]
IBM: Our Unix Licence Is Irrevocable
News There could be provisions in the agreement that say the licence is terminated upon the happening of certain events," Gray said. In other words, "the licence is perpetual so long as the licence agreement itself stays in force.
[March 11, 2003, 13:00]
Sony DRM Rootkit 'legal In The UK'
News The licence agreement probably provides "enough wriggle room" for Sony, as it informs users about the software, the purpose of the software and excludes itself from liability, said Sommer. For example, Robertson said the Office of Fair Trading (OFT...
[November 4, 2005, 13:45]
Unix Copyrights Emerge From Shadows
News SCO believes that the Asset Purchase Agreement provided Novell with a Unix licence, but under the condition that Novell use the licensed technology only for internal purposes or for resale in bundled and integrated products sold by Novell that do...
[January 14, 2004, 8:55]
Microsoft Gives New Life To Java Virtual Machine
News The company posted a notice on its developer Web site on 8 April indicating that Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have agreed to extend Microsoft's Java licence, which will allow Microsoft to continue support for its JVM.
[April 15, 2004, 9:25]
Missing GPL Detail May Make It Harder To Enforce
News The accused party could say — the only party I dealt with [in the licence agreement] was the Free Software Foundation," said Guibault. The solution to this issue would be relatively simply matter of adding the name of the software author to the...
[June 1, 2005, 15:35]
