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Linking software, or what's a derivative

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 07:48

The Free Software Foundation Europe is the facilitator of a legal network comprising hundreds of experts from private practice, corporations, universities around the world. One of the Special interest groups has spent almost one year producing a document explaining how differently licensed software programs and libraries can and cannot mixed to make or not to make a derivative of each other.

The result is what we call "the linking document". It might not be perfect, but it's a valid platform for discussion around a topic that provide headache to many players in the field. To find a comparable discussion, albeit controversial and limited to the GNU licenses,  one should redress to the FSF's FAQ.

Some clarity at last.

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Italian Constitutional Court gives way to Free-Software friendly laws

Thu, 06/24/2010 - 13:54

Ifosslr Volume 2, issue 1, is out with an article of mine on a recent case on which the Italian Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of giving preference to Free Software in Public Administration. Here is the Abstract

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Libroaid - Biblioaid

Wed, 06/23/2010 - 18:17

Digital library of the Italian Association for Dyslexia (AID). Biblioaid had been hijacked, but now it resolves to the "true" site: https://www.libroaid.it