At the end of last week, the MPEG-LA consortium announced they were extending the arrangement whereby they allow ‘web uses’ of the patents reading on the H.264 standard that they administer for their members to be licensed without charge. The arrangement, which runs in five-year periods, has now been extended to the expiration of the [...]
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Serbia: “Better on Facebook Than in the Streets” Interesting article points out what I think is a global phenomenon, where the popular press treats web social media as a threat instead of as an opportunity. Just the same thing happened with blogging, where the popular anti-meme was “you’ll lose your job if you blog”. Facebook [...]
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The End of OpenSolaris Patrick Finch with an informed view of what happened in the past and informed conjecture about the present and future. Elections to BCS Council It’s time for elections to the BCS Council again – do we need to get some open source minded people on there? Survey identifies open source as [...]
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Contributor agreements that aggregate the copyrights of open source code in favour of a single corporate sponsor are a sure sign of a community where one member has more rights than the rest. This article explores why they happen.
Filed under: Copyright, Governance, Open Source | Tagged: Business, Copyright, GPL, License, Multi-licensing, Open Source | 6 Comments »
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