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SFLC Takes on Consumer Electronics Companies: Will it Help?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/15/2009
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is taking the gloves off. The SFLC has filed suit against 14 companies, alleging that each of the companies violates the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). According to the complaint and media release issued Monday, "nearly 20 separate products" ranging from Blu Ray DVD players to LCD [...]
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Eben Moglen to European Commission: Have Faith in the GPLv2

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/5/2009
Another voice heard on the European Commission's objection to Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems. This time, Eben Moglen has weighed in with an analysis of the objections related to the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). Moglen disagrees with the commission, and says that the GPLv2 is sufficient to protect the MySQL community apart [...]
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RMS says GPLv2 isn't good enough to protect MySQL (but it is)

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 10/20/2009
I was surprised, to say the least, this morning to read Simon Phipps' tweet that "Richard Stallman and others declare GPL inadequate to protect software freedom." Lack of caffeine, maybe? Nope. Stallman and Knowledge Ecology International really have sent a letter to the European Commission saying that Oracle shouldn't be permitted to acquire MySQL in [...]
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