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Submission + - Australian Mandatory ISP filtering will block P2P

Submitted by

rippie78

on Saturday March 31, 2007 @06:53PM

rippie78 writes: "Whirlpool the Australian broadband news site has broken the story that

The federal government has shocked industry by rushing a bill through parliament that will compel ISPs to block all P2P traffic.
"

Submission + - Starting a business based on GPL software?

Submitted by

errgh

on Saturday March 31, 2007 @05:27PM

errgh writes: "I'd like to start a web service that eventually would be supported either by ads and/or a subscription fee. It would be based on a open source social portal backend, although I will have to do some serious modifying to get it do accomplish my goals. The software is GPL v2 licensed. What will I need to post so that the license requirements will be met? Will I need to provide dividends to the authors? Can I not disclose the modified source, but only the unmodified original?"

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