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Raising Money for Open Source Projects: How Can We Improve?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/4/2010
One of the things I admire about the FLOSS community is the willingness to dig in and tackle problems facing a project, whether they're technical, structural (hosting, etc.), governance, licensing, and so on. But it would occasionally be a better idea to try to recruit expertise from the outside than to try to re-invent the [...]
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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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