Verizon Sued Over GPL Breach
News The Software Freedom Law Center said on Friday that it has filed a lawsuit against international telco Verizon, alleging that it has violated the terms of the General Public License, which governs the use of free and open-source software products.
[December 10, 2007, 10:54]
Linux Legal Team Sues Over GPL Violations
News The Software Freedom Law Center said it has filed suit against two companies for allegedly violating the General Public License, which covers usage of Linux and thousands of other free and open-source products.
[November 21, 2007, 10:34]
Businesses 'paying Patent Tax' To Microsoft
News Businesses are paying a "patent tax" to Microsoft of $21.50 (£10.74) per user, according to the Software Freedom Law Center. The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), whose directors include the general counsels for the Free Software Foundation and...
[April 20, 2007, 16:00]
Open Source Politics Are 'American As Apple Pie'
News Moglen, who is also the founding director of The Software Freedom Law Center, was largely preaching to the converted when he made the remarks at the open source company's second annual user conference.
[June 2, 2006, 10:55]
Free Software 'not Anti-capitalist'
News As well as the FSF, Moglen also works with a number of other free software projects through the Software Freedom Law Center, which he helped launch last year. The full interview with Eben Moglen, where he discusses his work with the Law Center, his...
[March 15, 2006, 16:10]
Free Software's White Knight
News Eben Moglen at his desk, in the Software Freedom Law Center ZDNet UK spoke to Moglen last week about the work he is doing with the Law Center, his plans for expansion, and his philosophy on software freedom, and you can read the interview on the...
[March 15, 2006, 12:20]
How Important Is GPL Enforcement?
Blog On one level, the activity of the Software Freedom Law Center seems a bit perverse. What feels odd is the sight of a law firm going to court with a licence complaint - not trying to restrict the distribution of something, but trying to enforce its...
[November 22, 2007, 13:34]
Open-source Legal Body Sues Over GPL Violation
News Now, however, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is taking a hard-line approach, filing a copyright infringement lawsuit against Monsoon Multimedia for allegedly failing to abide by requirements of the GPL.
[October 1, 2007, 15:08]
Open-source Group Seeks Reversal Of 'junk Patent'
News The Software Freedom Law Center said on Thursday that it has asked the US Patent Office to re-examine a patent awarded to education software company Blackboard. It's a junk patent that should never have been given by the Patent Office," said...
[December 1, 2006, 7:40]
Interview: Open-source Advocate Eben Moglen
News The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), the legal service which he founded in 2005 to represent key free-software and open-source projects, will continue to serve the FSF; he just wants to step out of the limelight, he said.
[May 11, 2007, 15:15]
Microsoft Defends Validity Of Open-source Move
News Microsoft has struck out at the Software Freedom Law Center's claims that its Open Specification Promise is not as open as it should be. While the Sun covenant is silent about conformance to the specification, the OSP allows implementers the...
[March 17, 2008, 8:32]
Moglen Resigns As FSF Director
News Moglen will now devote more of his time to his role as chairman at the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), the legal service which he founded in 2005 to represent key free-software and open-source projects, including the FSF.
[April 26, 2007, 16:55]
Samba And Microsoft Strike Interoperability Deal
News PFIF, which is paying a one-off fee of €10,000 (£7,240) for the documentation, is part of the Software Freedom Law Center. The non-disclosure agreement was brokered on behalf of Samba by the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), an...
[December 21, 2007, 16:01]
Samba 'pleased' With Microsoft Co-operation
News PFIF, which paid a one-off fee of €10,000 (£5,000) for the documentation, is part of the Software Freedom Law Center. The non-disclosure agreement was brokered on behalf of Samba by the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), an...
[January 31, 2008, 7:45]
Eben Moglen: GPLv3 Set For Success
News Moglen, a Columbia law school professor and former IBM programmer, is stepping down as counsel to the FSF, but he remains active in another group called the Software Freedom Law Center. Eben Moglen, the law professor and open-source legal expert...
[May 24, 2007, 11:40]
Kazaa In Child Porn Investigation
News The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought. Congress' first two attempts to restrict sexually explicit Web sites have been rejected by courts, and last...
[March 13, 2003, 10:01]
Siggraph Audience Takes Sony To Task On DRM
News In addition to Singer, the "Digital Rights, Digital Restrictions" panel discussion featured Karen Sandler, an attorney from the Software Freedom Law Center; Emru Townsend, founding editor of Frames Per Second magazine and a contributor to PC World...
[August 2, 2006, 10:10]
Open Source Patent Library Launched
News Eben Moglen, legal representative of the Free Software Foundation the chair of the Software Freedom Law Center, which offers free legal advice to those in the open source movement, praised the initative and called on the community to support the...
[August 10, 2005, 12:25]
Google Joins Open Source-patent Network
News Eben Moglen, a Columbia University professor and chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, said in a speech in May that companies such as Google and Yahoo have "ethical and community responsibilities" to contribute their code back to the...
[August 8, 2007, 9:34]
Microsoft: We Won't Sue Over Future OOXML Versions
News The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) recently warned that patent protections would only cover current, not future, versions of the specification, drawing attention to Microsoft's wording of the OSP: "New versions of previously covered...
[March 28, 2008, 7:13]
