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id and Valve May Be Violating GPL 399

Posted by Zonk on Sunday August 05, 2007 @05:02PM
from the can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.

frooge writes "With the recent release of iD's catalog on Steam, it appears DOSBox is being used to run the old DOS games for greater compatibility. According to a post on the Halflife2.net forums, however, this distribution does not contain a copy of the GPL license that DOSBox is distributed under, which violates the license. According to the DOSBox developers, they were not notified that it was being used for this release."

August 2007

June 2007

+ - Perfect silicon sphere to redefine the kilogram ->

Submitted by MrCreosote on Thursday June 14, 2007 @07:50PM

MrCreosote writes "The Age reports optical specialists at CSIRO are helping create a new standard for the kilogram, based on a precise number of atoms in a perfect sphere of silicon. This will replace the International Prototype, a lump of metal alloy in a vault in Paris."
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