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The Free Software Foundation has just announced that it has filed suit against Cisco Systems in the United States District Court (Southern District of New York) for violations of the GPL. Veteran open source lawyer Hank Jones provided me with a copy of the complaint earlier, but it is now available on the FSF web [...]
“The FSF should realize by now their influence is waning. Look at the plethora of alternative licenses. Now they’re really hamstringing themselves with Version 3, taking the license further and further from where industry developers are heading… Do (developers) care when Eben Moglen says “the time is rapidly approaching when the
This week I found myself entangled in yet another GPL argument. Opinions on the GPL’s infamous viral effect polluted the air as advocates and opponents battled over topics they had no business discussing. My advice: don’t argue about a legal license unless you’re a lawyer. Scratch that. Don’t argue about the GPL, period. Mos