'all FOSS developers require an environment in which liability and other legal issues do not impede their important public service work. The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) provides legal representation and other law-related services.'

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Linux group wants software patents made null

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

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Why Microsoft (probably) won't sue us for infringing 'IP'

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

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Luis Villa’s Blog » What the kernel guys are and aren’t (and really should be) saying about GPL v3

Saturday, December 02, 2006

What the FSF- and particularly Richard- wants is a GPL which reflects the FSF’s long-term approach to free software, where patents and DRM are another restriction (like binary software) that could reduce freedoms. Nothing in GPL v3 is inconsistent with

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Luis Villa’s Blog: and ubuntu’s patent stand?

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Luis notes that 'Ubuntu still has no clear patent policy that I can find, nor are they (again, as far as I can tell) contributing to some of the anti-patent work being done by others.' I'll be interested to hear the answers

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GIF is NOW finally free - for real, with a final Unisys joke | Free Software Magazine

Thursday, September 28, 2006

The Software Freedom Law Center says that after 1 October 2006, there will be no significant patent claims interfering with employment of the GIF format.

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