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| | It would not be an exaggeration to say that the magic of open source software (OSS) is based as much on legal innovation as it is on collaboration. Indeed, the essential innovation that launched free and open source software was ... Continue reading ?
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| | Free Software is software that respects the user's freedom To someone who's not a programmer: this sounds totally absurd What the heck is freedom that these people keep talking about? free? no paisa? ?? I had always thought it meant software - that was free-of-charge. After reading Wikipedia I was even more confused. It talked about 'respecting your freedom'. Respects the user from what? cyber-bullying? blocks-ads? respects your time? I, just like you had no clue what they were talking about.
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| | Copyleft is the ability of a contributor or distributor to add restrictions to a work. While most open source software allows you to use and modify the code as you want, open source software incorporating copyleft provisions prevent a contributor from making the future software proprietary. Copyleft is a general method for making a program...
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| I'm supposed to be finishing a wonky series on proof systems (here and here) and I promise I will do that this week. In the midst of this I've been a bit distracted by world events. Last week the Washington Post published a bombshell story announcing that the U.K. had filed "technical capability notices" demanding...