Archive for the tag 'copyleft'

May 28 2009

Help EFF stop copyright bullyies intimidating children

Published by Stef under community, eng

Are you looking for a good cause to donate to? Introducing a new program ofthe Electronic Frontier Foundation to counterbalance the intimidating tactics used by the copyright bullies, like MPAA and RIAA. The bullies go to schools spreading their perception that copying is bad for society: their vision is one where kids that help each [...]

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Jun 24 2008

Moodle ripped off, should switch to Affero GPLv3

Published by Stef under business, community

Roberto reports about the Lazio e-Citizen project chose Moodle to deliver courses to educate elderly citizens (age 60 and more) to use computers and Internet, but they don’t say that openly.’  I found it offensive, that AICA and all the other groups involved in the project failed not only to give credit to the Moodle [...]

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Mar 18 2008

Evento: Copyleft, Open Source, innovazione e creatività  alla Sapienza

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Domani, 18 Marzo alla Facoltà  di Scienze della Comunicazione della Sapienza di Roma ci sarà  un incontro sul tema della creatività  nell’era di Internet che affronterà  le tematiche del software libero e delle licenze libere per i contenuti creativi.
Durante l’incontro verrà  presentato il film* “La Repubblica del Software”, Free, Open Source Software nella Pubblica Amministrazione [...]

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Mar 14 2008

Give the GNU GPL an ‘A’, as in Affero

Published by Stef under business, eng, funambol

The GNU Affero General Public License v3 is now officially an ‘open source’ license, approved by the Open Source Initiative.
Funambol started the approval process of the best license available to protect copyleft, and business based on it, from predatory practices. Fabrizio (Funambol’s CEO) celebrates the sweet victory on his blog mentioning the ’strange’ [...]

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