Mike, thanks for the news... interesting stuff. jmz On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Mike Schwartz wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Mike Schwartz wrote: > > > > (("Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software > > New York Times (08/14/08) P. C7; Markoff, John")) > > http://technews.acm.org/#374965 > > Here are some excerpts: > > << "In a major victory for the open source software movement, the > > federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has ruled [...]" >> > > (basically, has ruled that licenses like the Gnu GPL -- [in this case, > > it apparently was the "Artistic License"] -- are OK). > > << "The lower court [had] ruled that the terms of the open source > > contract [I think they mean "license"] were overly broad." >> > > The "Click Here to View Full Article" link points to > > "http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/14commons.html" > > (at which point you can click on "Print") (-- if you are like me) > > That [NY Times] article has some embedded hyper-links, such as > > this one from (the word "_ruling_" in) the 2nd sentence: > > http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf > > [...snip...] > > -- > > Mike Schwartz > > I hadn't read (all of) the ruling > http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf > when that initial post was sent. > The ruling specifically talks about the Gnu GPL (and, in footnote 2 > at the bottom of page 7, it mentions that it is used for Linux). > It also mentions several projects that use [quote] "public" licenses, > such as Perl, Firefox, Apache and Wikipedia, and > "the Gnu/Linux operating system" > (but elsewhere, in footnote 2, the "Gnu/" part of that name is left out). > Also (pay attention, teachers!) on pages 6/7, the ruling says > "For example, [MIT] uses a Creative Commons public license for an > OpenCourseWare project that licenses all 1800 MIT courses." > -- > Mike Schwartz > Glendale AZ > schwartz@acm.org > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- "Never take counsel of your fears." - Andrew Jackson - http://www.joshuazeidner.com/