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Comment Re:Making available... (Score 1) 480

by ingokorb on Monday June 23, 2008 @08:00AM (#23901739) Attached to: Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies?

A paper listing wouldn't qualify for GPL compliance because that isn't the "prefered form of the work for making modifications to it".

Anyway, if the source code isn't shipped with the binaries the license requires that the binaries are accompanied with a written offer to give a machine-readable copy of the source code "on a medium customarily used for software interchange" (paper is disqualified again...) to any third party. The last part really means "anyone that asks" according to the GPL FAQ, even people who haven't received binaries from those who offer the source code.

Firefox 4 Will Push Edges of Browser Definition 501

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 28, 2008 @03:24PM from the all-kinds-of-fun-new-toys dept.

Chris Blanc writes "Mozilla Lab's push is to blur the edges of the browser, to make it both more tightly integrated with the computer it's running on, and also more hooked into Web services. So extended, the browser becomes an even more powerful and pervasive platform for all kinds of applications. 'Beard wants the new online/offline, browser/service to be more intelligent on behalf of its users. Early examples of this intelligence include the "awesome bar," which is what Mozilla calls the new smart address bar in Firefox 3. It offers users smart URL suggestions as they type based on Web searches and their prior Web browsing history. He's looking to extend on this with a "linguistic user interface" that lets users type plain English commands into the browser bar. Beard pointed me towards Quicksilver and Enso as products he's cribbing from.'"

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