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Ruben Unteregger, a 33-year-old software developer from Switzerland, has made public the source code of a trojan that taps into Skype conversations, records all audio data and sends it back to the attacker. This latest development comes after a serious scandal that flamed in 2006 about the usage of a similar Skype wi... |
27 August 2009
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After last year's case, when the high district court of Munich, Germany, issued an injunction against Skype for selling the SMC WSKP 100 Linux-based WiFi VoIP phone, the Luxembourg-based company seems to be plagued with legal problems once more, this time related to the violation of the GPL license. After the in... |
9 May 2008
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The RepRap project managed to give birth to something that you might call a printer only if you think outside the box. The RepRap (Replicating Rapid-prototyper) device is able to replicate and update itself whenever it is necessary. In order to update itself, the unit prints its own parts.According to software develo... |
8 April 2008
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Don Hopkins has released the original SimCity source code under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The source code contains no references to the original SimCity game, as it will be renamed to Micropolis. This was the original working title, and some work had to be done to the code so that the open source version ... |
14 January 2008
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Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, has no plans to license it under GPLv3 anytime soon.Torvalds criticized the third version of the GNU General Public License from the time it was just a draft, and, in an interview for Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, he said that he preferred GPL... |
9 January 2008
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Asustek's Eee PCs have sold extremely well mostly due to their small price, actually, world's smallest price for a 12-inch sub-notebook. Well, of course that the cheapest laptop in the class would be functionally limited and would feature low-end hardware for basic computing only. The GPL violation Asustek ... |
10 December 2007
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There was a whole explosion of anger and disappointment emanated from GPL supporters, after software developer Cliff Biffle had revealed a few discrepancies between the pre-installed Eee OS and the source code available for download on the producer's website. Biffle affirmed that the 1.8 GB tarball that include... |
29 November 2007
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Open Source is a really weird world. Apart from the high quality source code you may use either at home or inside your enterprise, a closer look on the license shows you plenty of "You can" and "You are allowed to" formulations. There are a few things you are not allowed to do, but Asus managed to find a "Don't... |
27 November 2007
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Asus has done quite a job when launching their low-price Eee series, and has been in the spotlight ever since. Recently, one of their customers, programmer Cliff Biffle, decided to turn the weapons against his own computer supplier.While disassembling the Xandros Linux operating system, which is absolutely permitted ... |
24 November 2007
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A low budget, open source, VGA compatible video card is under serious development by Michael Meeuwisse and a few contributors. The goal of "Project VGA" is to create a video card that's under $294, or 200 Euros. If everything goes well, you could buy one of these cards from the Wacco Webstack site, owned by Mich... |
12 November 2007
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Monsoon Multimedia, an American company and software vendor is taken to court for violating the GPL license. Before this all, GPL violations used to be resolved by letters from open-source organizations - which in this case is the Free Software Foundation - that presented the violations.Yesterday, the Software Freedo... |
21 September 2007
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Open Source Initiative's licensing board officially approved the third version of the General Public License (GPL) and Lesser General Public License (LGPL), as Open Source Initiative's chairman, Michael Tiemann, said.Although the GPL is used for almost three-quarters of free and open source licenses, the fa... |
11 September 2007
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It seems that id Software and Valve are into the monkey business. No actually, just in business, as they've apparently stolen other people's work to run Wolfenstein 3D, thus violating actual GPL laws. Of course, both companies surely knew what they were doing when they decided to use DOSBox to play the game... |
6 August 2007
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The famous Skype which develops a highly spread peer-to-peer Internet telephony network and competes against the older existing VoIP protocols such as SIP or IAX is now into some troubles with a German court regarding one of its products.It seems that Skype's WSKP100 Linux-based phone, made by SMC and distribut... |
26 July 2007
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According to an announcement released a few days ago, Samba adopted the latest GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licenses for all their future releases. The third version of the famous GNU General Public License (GPL) was proposed by the Free Software Foundation a while ago as an assurance for the users who modify the free software ... |
11 July 2007
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The well-known General Public Licence (GPL) is about to reach its third version, as the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced this week. According to FSF officials the day GPL3 is scheduled to be released is this Friday, June 2007. The license upgrading issue stirred many controversies in the open source communit... |
27 June 2007
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On the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LMKL) some interesting posts related to the GPL v2 and 3 licenses have been recently made by Linus Torvalds. The famous Linux developer mainly voices against FSF's GPLv3, which - according to him - features an anti-DRM language and also takes in some slippery words which do not ... |
14 June 2007
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GPL or GNU GPL stands for the GNU General Public License which was originally written by Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, for the GNU project. According to the GPL, a computer program enjoys the rights of the free software definition and uses copyleft to ensure preservations of the privile... |
18 May 2007
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