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• German jury ratifies GPL (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  As recently announcend in the reasons for a judgement from may the 19th this year, a German jury ratified the rights of the GPL (GNU Public License). In the specific instance the netfilter/iptables project sued Sitecom (a router producer) to us the software for their products, without keeping all aspects of the GPL. The result of this was the enforcement of an injunction which disallows the distribution of the routers under this circumstances in Germany. [Read full post…]

• When time lacks... (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  I'm still alive... at least half-way... [Read full post…]

• Deutsche Bank warns against software patents (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  I recently got an article on Golem to know, where my current company (the research division) warns against software patents. I really did not expect that, but I really appreciate. [Read full post…]

• Lukas stepping back (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Lukas Smith (until today member of the PEAR group and the PEAR QA core team) has stepped back from all of his positions in PEAR, except being a normal developer. [Read full post…]

• Karlsruhe demo in Ct (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Today I received my copy of the german Ct magazine (magazine for computer technic), which has a 1 page article on the Linuxtag (see page 48, issue 15/2004). The article is focused half onto Linuxtag itself and the other half is focused on our demonstration. Best thing: In the middle of the page there's a photo of the 10 jailed programmers, where I'm in the very middle! ;) [Read full post…]

• New blog category "Community related" (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  I invented a new category in my weblog. Though I had very few categories in my blog, today I added a new one. It happens more and more often, that I post stuff that's interessting (IMO) for the PHP community, but not directly related to PHP. Until now I posted these entries either in PEAR or PHP, depending on which category fitted more. [Read full post…]

• A critical view on open source (en)

  by Tobias Schlitt on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100

  Michelle Levesque, a scientist at the Citizen Lab of an Kanadian University took a deeper look at a bunch of open source projects. [Read full post…]

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