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Comment Re:Looks like the project is officially being kill (Score 1) 194

by icosagon on Sunday April 15, 2007 @03:32PM (#18743409) Attached to: SQL-Ledger Relicensed, Community Gagged

Actually, the forum and wiki have always been like that. You have to pay SQL-Ledger's author to get access. There used to be public trackers and the like on SourceForge, but he removed them a few months ago.

Submission + - SQL-Ledger Relicensed, Community Gagged

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Ashley Gittins

on Saturday April 14, 2007 @10:07AM

Ashley Gittins writes: "Users of the popular accounting package SQL-Ledger are being kept in the dark about a recent license change. Two weeks ago a new version of the software was released but along with it came the silent change of license from GPLv2 to the "SQL-Ledger Open Source License" — presumably in an effort to prevent future forks like LedgerSMB. As it turns out, the author is making deliberate attempts to prevent the community from finding out about the license change. All posts to the SQL-Ledger mailing lists asking about the license change are being censored and direct questions to the author are going unanswered. This behaviour is not a first for this particular project, and is part of the reason for the original LedgerSMB fork. So, does a project maintainer have an ethical obligation to notify his or her community of a license change? What about a legal obligation?"

Submission + - Why can't a computer be more like a brain?

Submitted by

newtronic

on Thursday April 12, 2007 @10:02PM

newtronic writes: "Jeff Hawkins, who founded Palm Computing, writes in IEEEE Spectrum, Why can't a computer be more like a brain? In this article, he brings us up to date with his latest endeavor, Numenta. He covers progress since his book On Intelligenceand gives details on Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) which is a platform for simulating neocortexial activity. Numenta has created a framework which allows anyone to build HTMs."

Submission + - Utah Bans Keyword Advertising

Submitted by

Eric Goldman

on Monday April 09, 2007 @02:44PM

Eric Goldman writes: "Last month, Utah passed a law banning keyword advertising. Rep. Dan Eastman, the Utah legislator who sponsored the law, believes competitive keyword advertising is the equivalent of corporate identity theft, causing searchers to be (in his words) "carjacked" and "shanghaied" by advertisers. He also takes a swipe at the EFF, dismissing its critique of the law as "criticism from the fringes." I have posted a response to Rep. Eastman."

Submission + - Canadian University students protecting their IP

Submitted by innocent_white_lamb on Sunday April 08, 2007 @02:52PM

innocent_white_lamb writes: Graduate students at Carleton University (Ottawa) are taking steps to protect their intellectual property and insuring that they are being properly recognized for their work, according to this article. This is in response to the increased commercialization of research done at universities, and high-profile cases of copyright infringement by professors at the University of Toronto and Indiana University.

Journal Journal: LedgerSMB 1.2 released, SQL-Ledger changes licenses

Journal by einhverfr on Sunday April 08, 2007 @02:13PM

SQL-Ledger changed its license away from the GPL to a license that many of us feel meets neither the FSF's definition of Free Software nor the OSI's definition of Open Source. Perhaps the reason is that DWS is afraid of the competition.

Submission + - openSUSE Hobbled by Microsoft Patents

Submitted by

kripkenstein

on Sunday April 08, 2007 @11:06AM

kripkenstein writes: "openSUSE 10.2 no longer enables ClearType (which improves the appearance of fonts). The reason given on the openSUSE mailing list for not enabling it is:

Note that this feature is covered by several Microsoft patents and should not be activated in any default build of the library.

As reported on and discussed here and here, this matter may be connected to the Microsoft-Novell deal. If so, Novell should have received a license for the Microsoft patents, assuming the deal covered all relevant patents. Does the license therefore extend only to SUSE, but not openSUSE?"

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