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"Consider Debian bug 377109, filed by the sharp-eyed license watchers in that camp. It seems that Jörg Shilling, the maintainer of cdrtools (containing cdrecord, mkisofs, and other tools), decided to license his build system for those tools under the CDDL. The GPL requires that build tools and scripts also be released under the GPL, so mixing the CDDL build system with the GPL-licensed CD/DVD tools made the whole thing undistributable - at least, in the eyes of the Debian developers."

OCRopus(tm) is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multi-lingual capabilities. The system is being developed with the generous support from Google and other organizations; the primary developers are at the IUPR Research Group at the DFKI Research Center.

"As a follow up of my Why GPL? Or: How the GPL eats the kittens it protects post, I’d like to discuss a few comments and explain some misconceptions, my own included."

JODConverter, the Java OpenDocument Converter, converts documents between different office formats. It leverages OpenOffice.org, which provides arguably the best import/export filters for OpenDocument and Microsoft Office formats available today.

"In June, 2007 - Red Hat launched the IcedTea project with the goal of making OpenJDK usable without requiring any other software that is not free. [...] The latest OpenJDK binary included in Fedora 9 (x86 and x86_64) passes the rigorous [TCK]."