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Open-source legal body sues over GPL violation

The Software Freedom Law Center has filed suit against Monsoon Multimedia, with potential repercussions for others besides the defendant. Read more »

Linux programmer wins legal victory

A Linux programmer reported a new victory in a German court on Thursday in enforcing the General Public License, which governs countless projects in the free and open-source software realms. Read more »

Open-source spat triggers legal threat

A small company is threatening legal action against some users of the open-source Mambo software for publishing content on Web sites, arguing that the package includes proprietary code. Read more »

US subway hackers still gagged

A US judge let stand a temporary restraining order preventing three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from discussing or disclosing their research into security vulnerabilities in the payment system for the local subway system. Read more »

Court curbs Microsoft Java distribution

Federal judges in the US have dealt a legal blow to Sun, tossing out most of a preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to carry its rival's version of an interpreter for the Java programming language. Read more »

Microsoft scores victory in Alcatel-Lucent suit

Judge has ruled in favour of the software giant in a second patent suit, this time involving speech-coding technology Read more »

Companies accused of violating the GPL

Thirteen companies, including Motorola and Acer, have been handed letters claiming they have failed to comply with the GNU General Public License Read more »

Red Hat adds new Linux legal protection

Faced with new competitive challenges from Novell, Microsoft and Oracle, Linux seller Red Hat has begun promising protection against intellectual-property lawsuits. Read more »

Is Real's 'hacking' of iPod legal?

Code-crackers risk fines and prison time when they defeat copy-protection technology, but such draconian rules likely don't apply in the case of RealNetworks and its iPod "hack," legal experts in the US say. Read more »

Open source licence victory in model-railway case

A federal appeals court in the US has upheld the right of a copyright holder to distribute software under a free or open source licence while preventing such code being used commercially without following the licensing conditions. Read more »

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Linux creator takes commercial position

Linus Torvalds has been lured from Transmeta to work full-time on the open source Linux operating system. Read more »

Have a policy for making policies

Formalised policies and procedures help protect you, your company, and your employees. Here are tips on planning your policy strategy. Read more »

Sprucing up open source's GPL foundation

Modernisation is coming to the General Public License, a legal framework that supports a large part of the free and open-source software movements and that has received sharp criticism from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »

Bug hunters, software firms in uneasy alliance

Although many software makers promote responsible disclosure, it isn't universally backed by the security community. Critics say it could make security companies lazy in patching. Full disclosure of flaws is better is preferred. Read more »

James Gosling Q & A

James Gosling was in Australia this week to give two question-and-answer session to local developers. A rare opportunity for local developers, Builder AU was on hand to transcribe the event for those who couldn't make it. Read more »

Torvalds: What, me worry?

In this interview Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds, sounds off on the SCO lawsuit, patents and the future of Linux. Read more »

IBM to Sun: free Java

Big Blue heavyweight Bob wants Sun's Java to be open-sourced and ultimately turned into a standard. Read more »

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Busybox settles a second GPL suit

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The folks behind Busybox have settled a second lawsuit that argued a company violated the widely used free and open-source license. Read more »

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