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Software licence tied to human rights
News Software distributed under an "enhanced source" licence released this week will be legally prohibited from censoring or spying on users. Crafted by Hacktivismo, a hacking group organised by the Cult of the Dead Cow, the Hacktivismo enhanced-source...
[November 28, 2002, 8:22]
Study: Software licence cheating costs £18bn
News Topping the list of countries with high software licence cheating rates are Vietnam and Zimbabwe, each with 90 percent; Indonesia with 87 percent; and China and Pakistan with 86 percent. While the rate of licence cheating has fluctuated from...
[May 24, 2006, 9:15]
Sun submits software licence to Open Source Initiative
News Sun has quietly begun seeking official open-source status for a new software licence that likely will be used to govern its Solaris operating system. Sun's CDDL description addressed the difficulties of intermingling software covered by the CDDL...
[December 3, 2004, 7:45]
Microsoft launches 'charity friendly' software licence
News Microsoft has created a special software licence for Windows 98 and Windows 2000 that allows charities and schools to use second-hand PCs without breaking the company's end user licence rules. The catch is that because the computers were sold with...
[April 8, 2004, 17:50]
VAT/Tax Inspections should include Software Licence Audit
Talkback Business should be made to have an annual Software Licence 'MOT' Declaration, which is then verified by VAT/Tax Inspectors, afterall its a VAT underpaymnet in effect. Regulating the Web is a very dangerous game and maybe the ISP should distinguish...
[February 24, 2008, 9:38]
Software licence management - your experiences?
Blog Comment While the business I work for has thankfully avoided the issue of software licencing for many a year, several customers have indicated that it was a non-trivial drain on money and resources to remain compliant with software licencing.
[May 11, 2009, 12:16]
Microsoft launches 'charity friendly' software licence
Talkback A software lience, whats one of them. LOL
[April 10, 2004, 7:23]
Microsoft offers free software as licence-check reward
Talkback If Microsoft didn't charge so much for their OS, piracy wouldn't be a problem. Even the OEM version for XP is $90, for the crappiest OS I have ever used. When I was building my machine I initially didn't have enough money for WIndows, and had to...
[November 1, 2004, 20:05]
Microsoft launches 'charity friendly' software licence
Talkback And, of course, .this ignores the fact that almost every Judge that has actually examined Microsoft's EULAs (End User License Agreement) has concluded that Microsoft's claims of 'product-control after purchase' are, at the least unsupportable...
[April 9, 2004, 4:34]
Microsoft launches 'charity friendly' software licence
Talkback public schools are considdered charities, i am sure they will take advantage of this.or will they, win2000 is a little old now, so maybe this will work best for state schools
[April 8, 2004, 22:12]
Microsoft launches 'charity friendly' software licence
Talkback Only Microsoft could take money off charities into their own coffers and try to make it look like they're being big-hearted.
[April 8, 2004, 18:58]
Software licence management - your experiences?
Blog For various reasons, some of which may become clear soon, we're looking at the area of software licences. So if you've got something to say about the whole process of licensing enterprise software - how easy it is to understand, specify, cost...
[May 8, 2009, 15:57]
Microsoft offers free software as licence-check reward
News There are some hassles, he said, as the software requires customers to find their Windows licence information, something that is not always easy. Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg said the programme makes sense for Microsoft, which is...
[October 28, 2004, 8:24]
Oracle's earnings meet estimates
News Oracle met analysts' third-quarter earnings estimates on Thursday, aided by double-digit growth in both new software licences and its licence updates and support business. New software licences rose 12 percent to $847m, while software licence...
[March 12, 2004, 9:45]
RTLinux patent accused of violating GPL
News The Free Software Foundation has condemned FSMLabs, which developed the embedded operating system RTLinux, for using software patents that it says violate a central pillar of the Linux world -- the GNU Public Licence (GPL).
[September 17, 2001, 17:07]
Software vendors forcing unfair licences on users
News Consumers are being forced to accept software licence agreements full of confusing jargon that are unfairly biased in favour of the vendors. Of 25 software packages surveyed by the National Consumer Council (NCC), 14 had no mention in their...
[February 21, 2008, 9:33]
Removing J.D. Edwards reveals PeopleSoft weakness
News Excluding revenue gained from a large acquisition, PeopleSoft's software licence revenue declined by more than 20 percent last year compared with 2002, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing. In the enterprise software industry, licence fees...
[March 10, 2004, 8:55]
Open-source legal body sues over GPL violation
News A legal team enforcing the most widely used licence in the open-source and free-software movement has shown that it's not afraid to take its cases all the way to court. The licence also requires anyone distributing GPL software, in an executable...
[October 1, 2007, 15:08]
French fry up their own GPL
News Three French public agencies released details of a new software licence last week that they say is similar to the General Public License (GPL) but tailored for the market in France. The three departments behind CeCILL say that their licence shares...
[July 13, 2004, 15:05]
GPL loses ground in open-source development
News At the same time, Microsoft's open-source software licence, MS-PL, is gaining ground in the open-source world, the company said. The GNU General Public Licence is falling in popularity, looking at all the versions of the GPL as a whole, according...
[July 1, 2009, 17:37]
