By Jim Lynch Why Linus loves the GPL Linus Torvalds has never been one to mince words when it comes to Linux, or anything else for that matter. At a keynote conversation at LinuxCon …read more Source:: OpenSource
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Linus Torvalds’ love-hate relationship with the GPL
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Linux’s founder appreciates what the GNU General Public License has given Linux, but he doesn’t appreciate how some open-source lawyers are trying to enforce it in court. …read more Source:: Legal
Statement in support of Software Freedom Conservancy and Christoph Hellwig, GPL enforcement lawsuit
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On Thursday, March 5, 2015, Christoph Hellwig, with support from the Software Freedom Conservancy, filed suit in Hamburg, Germany against VMware Global, Inc. Hellwig is a prominent contributor to the kernel Linux, releasing his contributions under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. VMware, like everyone, is free to use, modify,…
Free Software Foundation opens registration for March 24th legal seminar on GPL Enforcement and Legal Ethics
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Friday, February 14th, 2014 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced open registration for a seminar on GPL Enforcement and Legal Ethics, to be held Monday, March 24th, 2014, at Suffolk University Law School. The half-day seminar will provide an introduction to the terms of the GNU General Public License…
Migrating to MariaDB from MySQL
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Ever since Oracle bought MySQL a fair number of MySQL users started looking for an alternative, due mainly to doubts that Oracle would be a good steward of a key software project. Let’s go back in time a little bit to understand what’s at stake, and look at the reasons to move away from, or…