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TomTom Can License FAT Without Violating the GPL 261

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 12, 2009 @10:59PM from the ask-a-master-license-delver dept.

dp619 writes "Capped per-unit royalties make FAT licensing agreements permissible under the GPL, and SD Times has found that Microsoft's public license policy caps royalties at $250k. If the royalties are capped — as they seem to be — TomTom should be able to license FAT without violating the GPL. And if that is the case ... TomTom needs some serious explaining to do as to why they aren't licensing FAT. That said, Microsoft still needs to explain why it just cannot say that folks won't violate the GPL if they license FAT under its terms."

Comment Just think of the possibilities! (Score 1) 1130

by Low5 on Monday April 21, 2008 @09:28AM (#23141806) Attached to: PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat

Who says we have to eat lamb or beef or pork if it's grown in a vat? We could finally ethically try Long Pig!

Oh the marketing possibilities of celebrity meat products...

The Real MIT Blackjack Mastermind 195

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 02, 2008 @08:29PM from the king-of-counting dept.

Wade Roush writes "21, the top movie at the box office last weekend, has everyone talking about the real identities of the MIT blackjack team members fictionalized in the movie and in the 2002 book, Bringing Down the House, on which the film is based. Last week a number of stories pointed to former MIT student and Las Vegas resident John Chang as the model for the Micky Rosa character, the club mastermind played in the movie by Kevin Spacey. But Boston-area Internet entrepreneur and real estate developer Bill Kaplan is saying that if anyone is the basis for Micky Rosa, it's him. Turns out Kaplan now battles the "e-mail churn" problem as CEO of Newton, MA, startup FreshAddress, which helps companies correct the outdated e-mail addresses in their customer databases."

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