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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa

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Open Source
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- German jury ratifies GPL

  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.

- When time lacks...

  I'm still alive... at least half-way...

- Deutsche Bank warns against software patents

  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.

- Lukas stepping back

  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.

- Karlsruhe demo in Ct

  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!
  ;)

- New blog category "Community related"

  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.

- A critical view on open source

  Michelle Levesque, a scientist at the Citizen Lab of an Kanadian University
  took a deeper look at a bunch of open source projects.