http://www.iosn.net Free and Open Source Software Licensing News daily 1 2006-11-21T07:35:21Z http://www.iosn.net/asean-3/countries/indonesia/news/govt-told-to-drop-deal-with-microsoft The Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) has urged the government to annul its recent deal with U.S. giant software producer Microsoft for the use of the latter's software in state offices and institutions. No publisher blackphoenix8 Piracy Indonesia Government Policy Licensing Legal 2007-03-19T08:24:50Z News Item http://www.iosn.net/licensing/news/samba-asks-novell-to-scuttle-microsoft-deal The Novell/Microsoft agreement has upset and offended quite a few members of the free software community. The Samba team has issued a statement asking Novell to undo the patent agreement, and the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is negotiating with Novell on their behalf. No publisher kaeru © Copyright 2006 - OSTG, Inc., All Rights Reserved Novell Software Patents Licensing Legal Microsoft 2006-11-27T03:02:51Z News Item http://www.iosn.net/licensing/news/microsoft-to-face-challenge-over-linux-licenses BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Supporters of the free PC operating system Linux are preparing to counter a recent Microsoft Corp. deal which established for the first time the principle of paying the software giant to use Linux. No publisher kaeru © Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved. Licensing 2006-11-23T07:23:42Z News Item http://www.iosn.net/licensing/news/sflc Software Freedom Conservancy offers nonprofit umbrella protections to free and open source projects No publisher kaeru Software Freedom Law Center Licensing 2006-11-23T06:39:30Z News Item http://www.iosn.net/licensing/news/gplv3 Draft of GPL Version 3 released. New version includes additional measures to protect software freedom from digital rights management and software patents. No publisher kaeru Licensing 2006-11-23T06:38:30Z News Item http://www.iosn.net/licensing/news/software-freedom-law-center-formation Software Freedom Law Center to be led by noted IP lawyer and professor Eben Moglen of Columbia University – initial funding support from Open Source Development Labs No publisher kaeru Lonn Johnston for Open Source Development Labs Licensing 2006-11-23T06:37:23Z News Item http://www.iosn.net/licensing/news/foss-licensing-primer IOSN has produced a primer on Free/Open Source Software Licensing and an early pre-copyedited draft of the primer is now available for public review and feedback. No publisher kaeru Primer Licensing IOSN 2006-11-23T06:35:18Z News Item http://www.iosn.net/licensing/news/eu-software-patents-munich When the city administration of Munich decided to migrate its IT infrastructure to the Linux operating system, it made headline news around the world. That project is now threatened by software patents. No publisher kaeru Licensing 2006-11-23T06:33:17Z News Item http://www.iosn.net/licensing/news/osrm-patent-cnet Linux potentially infringes 283 patents, including 27 held by Microsoft but none that have been validated by court judgments, according to a group that sells insurance to protect those using or selling Linux against intellectual-property litigation. No publisher kaeru Licensing 2006-11-23T06:29:32Z News Item http://www.iosn.net/licensing/news/germany-gpl-upheld The Heise reports that a recent court order, affirms that the GPL is valid in Germany. No publisher kaeru Licensing 2006-11-23T05:58:52Z News Item