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Just for the record, i post here this screenshot.

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It's finally arriving
As you might have noticed going through some blogs (interested in Free Software) one of the most awaited announcement has been made, through the info-gplv3 mailing list and i will report it here:
On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will officially release the GNU GPL [...]

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June started with the release of the last draft of the GPLv3.After a short period for commenting, the draft will get the final and official form, thus switching then from a 'draft status' to a 'copyright license' status
You might consider then to release your software under the new version of the license and [...]

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There have been few noises and discussions recently about how media companies should release their content of public political debates.
As i see it, the issue is the following: Public political debates are , by definition, public and this means they should be accessible to all citizens with no discrimination. For example I guess they shouldn't [...]

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It's been a little while since i finally had the chance to start reading Free Culture - The nature and future of creativity, by Lawrence Lessig.
It's not time to write a little post-review about it, since i didn't finish reading yet but i'm looking forward of finishing it. It contains so many insightfull views [...]

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There has been quite a delay in the release of the 3rd discussion draft of the GPLv3, which was scheduled for the end of 2006, and sould have brought to the release of the final version within March 2007.
Anyway in the gplv3-info mailing list appeared the announce that tomottow (28-mar-07), the 3rd discussion draft will [...]

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The GNU General Public License (GPL) and the OpenSolaris operative system have something in common. They are going right now through big changes process.  Smaller, but not less important, the one for the OpenSolaris, bigger and with, i believe, strong consequences for the GPL.
Sun Microsystem, who initially started Solaris (proprietary os), and then released it [...]

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Who has never thought that most of the EULAs out there, have not been set it up having customers rights in mind, raise his/her hand please
I'm not one of these. To the contrary, every time i buy a new technological token my belief about that, gets stronger. Nowadays companies are tying to sell [...]

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