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Ciaran O'Riordan's irregularly kept software freedom journal

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Open standards section on fsfeurope.org

ciaran

Thursday 17 April 2008

There's now an open standards project section on the fsfeurope.org website. There are links to our previous documents, including the ones about ISO and OOXML. Maybe most interesting is that there's a definition of open standards that we endorse. We didn't write this definition, but we took part in it's drafting, and many of our projects need to define "open standard" at some point, so this is the common definition we're using. Comments welcome, obviously.

There's also a new website section for hosting the leaflets that we have at our conference booths. Comments welcome there too (that is, unless you're going to say the formatting of the software patents leaflet is horrible - I just spotted that myself).

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RMS interview, GPLv3 adoption, GPL logos

ciaran

Thursday 03 April 2008

Datamation's James Maguire just published an article with an audience questions session and an interview of Richard Stallman. I think it's quite interesting. There's also a page 2 and a page 3.

On that kind of topic, Palamida's GPLv3 blog reports the number of GPLv3 projects has reached 2,000. I'll have to look into this however since a friend said his company's three GPLv3'd projects aren't listed, so the reported number may be a conservative estimate. I just also noticed that the Boycott Novell site has some cautionary advice for Palamida about how to describe licence risk.

And while I'm blogging, here's a link to new logos for projects using GPLv3 ...and while grabbing that link, I just noticed that FSF has launched a jobs directory.

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