Because the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires truthful disclosure of intellectual property ownership, violations of Linux's GPL license are, for public companies, violations of U.S. Securities Law. Executives are personally liable for such criminal violations, even if they are unaware of them. Moreover, because the Sarbanes-Oxley Act mandates adequate monitoring, even companies...
Software Industry's Top Expert on Adoption of Open Source and Associated Licenses Tracks Developments in GPL Use Over the Past Year, Offers Prediction on Future Use WALTHAM, Mass. -- Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-13 June 2008-MPower CRM software released on Sourceforge under GPLC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com MPower, a software supplier responsible for the eponymous constituent relationship management CRM program, announced today (13 June) that its program has been accepted by Sourceforge.net, an online repository of open source software. ...
NEW YORK -- The Software Freedom Law Center SFLC today announced that it has filed two more copyright infringement lawsuits, on behalf of two principal developers of BusyBox, alleging violation of the GNU General Public License GPL. The defendants in this new round of lawsuits are Bell Microproducts, Inc. and...
Pentaho Corp., the commercial open sourcealternative for business intelligence BI, today announced that itscurrent version 2 alpha release of the Pentaho BI Platform, as well asfuture versions, will be distributed under the terms of the GNU GeneralPublic License Version 2 (GPLv2). GPLv2 is a software license published bythe Free...
New Version of the World's Most Popular Open Source Database Delivers up to 15 Percent Higher Performance for Large-Scale Enterprise Applications SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the pending general availability of MySQLTM 5.1, a new version of the world's most popular open source...
Supporting Organization Will Extend Law Center's Services to For-Profit Clients NEW YORK -- The Software Freedom Law Center SFLC, provider of pro bono legal services to protect and advance free and open source software FOSS, today announced the formation of Moglen Ravicher LLC, a law firm which will...
OPEN SOURCE BUSINESS CONFERENCE -- Todayat the Open Source Business Conference, EnterpriseDB announced thatGridSQL, the company's business intelligence and data warehousing solution,is now available under the GPLv2 open source license. To encouragecommunity adoption, the GridSQL license includes a provision that allowsGridSQL to be embedded in software that is licensed under...
Good Faith Discussions Result in Dismissal of Copyright Infringement Case NEW YORK -- The Software Freedom Law Center SFLC today announced that agreements have been reached to dismiss the GPL enforcement lawsuit filed by SFLC against Verizon Communications Inc. on behalf of two principal developers of BusyBox. Verizon...
Nonprofit Group Says Microsoft Promise Provides No Assurance for Developers NEW YORK -- The Software Freedom Law Center SFLC, provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance free and open source software, today published a paper that considers the legal implications of Microsoft's Open Specification Promise OSP...
Good Faith Discussions Result in Closing of Copyright Infringement Case NEW YORK & PARKER, Colo. -- The Software Freedom Law Center SFLC and High-Gain Antennas today jointly announced that an agreement has been reached to dismiss the GPL enforcement lawsuit filed by SFLC on behalf of two principal...
GRAPEFRUIT--Prices of 58 Brix pink grapefruit juice concentrate prices remain firm and are around $1.40--$1.50 per pound solid, f.o.b. Florida. APPLE--Trading is active for juice apples in Michigan. Prices for domestic apple juice are around $10.12-$11.00, f.o.b. MI. Prices for apple juice...
ORANGE JUICE--For the four-week period ending Jan. 19, 2008, OJ revenues were up by 1.2%. Average prices are up 7.3% versus last year, contributing to a decline in gallon sales of 5.7%. Season-to-date revenues are up 0.9% with a 9.7% decline in volume. Wal-Mart's share of...
New Open Source RHQ Platform Project and Roadmap Now Public ORLANDO, Fla. -- JBOSS WORLD-- Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and Hyperic Inc., a leading open source web infrastructure management software provider, today announced that a jointly developed management...
New Report Analyzes the Business and Development Opportunities and Challenges Presented by GPLv3 NEW YORK -- The 451 Group found that the latest version of the GNU General Public License GPL - the world's most widely used open source license and the practical embodiment of the 'free' software...
OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterpriseopen source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open sourcepackages, today announced year-end statistics on enterprise open sourceadoption based on an analysis of OpenLogic's enterprise customers. Key Trends for 2007: Increased adoption of open source: On average, enterprises reported using94 different open source packages, up 26%...
Trolltech Reinforces Commitment to the Free Software Community OSLO, Norway -- Trolltech ASA is licensing its Qt cross-platform development framework under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL v3), with immediate effect. Qt is already available under the GPL v2 and will continue to be...
APPLE -Prices for apple juice concentrate from China are currently around $9.50--$10.00 per gallon for 70 Brix, ex-dock NY GRAPE--White grape 68 Brix concentrate is priced around $6.50-$6.75 per gallon coming in on the East Coast, ex-dock NY PEAR--Pear concentrate...
Wireless News12-19-2007HighPoint Rolls Out 2 Channel PCI-Express x1 True Hardware RAID Controller With OS SupportWIRELESS NEWS-December 19, 2007-HighPoint Rolls Out 2 Channel PCI- Express x1 True Hardware RAID Controller With OS Support C2007 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com HighPoint Technologies is releasing the RocketRAID 3120 PCI Express x1 SATA True Hardware...
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