Open Source Software - Intellectual Property
2000-08-30 Open Source Development Lab formed by HP, Intel, IBM, NEC - See document
2003-11-14 OSDL
to fund Torvalds legal representation in SCO litigation
2003-12-01 Linux Risk-Management
Working Group The
Albright Group
2004-01-22 OSRM
Working Group meeting
2004-02-02 Groklaw
editor joins OSRM [PDF]
2004-03-17 OSRM
unveils vendor-neutral risk mitigation services [PDF]
2004-04-19 OSRM
launches Open Source legal defense center [PDF]
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2004-04-19 OSRM
certifies Linux kernel free of copyright infringement [PDF]
2004-05-10 Bruce
Perens joins Open Source Risk Management's board of directors [PDF]
2004-08-xx OSRM team
2004-08-26 OSDL names
Diane Peters as General Counsel
2004-11-21 PJ resigns
from OSRM
2004-12-27 Open Source
Software Licensing/Legal Track
2005-01-11
IBM statement of non-assertion of named patents against OSS [PDF]
2005-02-01 Software
Freedom Law Center (SFLC) founded to assist Open Source developers
2006-04-03 Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) offers protections to free, open source projects
2007-01-22 Linux Foundation Launches, OSDL and Free Standards Group merge - See document
2008-08-05
A guide
to GPL compliance for software engineers and managers [WMA]
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2008-11-11
Introducing
the Software Freedom Law Show [WMA]
2009-12-14 Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, named in SFLC lawsuit More [PDF] WMAs: More More
2010-06-07 Motion
against Westinghouse in GPL compliance lawsuit
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2010-06-24 Distributing Linux without any source or an offer to provide
source - See document
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2010-08-03 Default
judgment for BusyBox GPL enforcement
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2010-10-04 Software
Freedom Conservancy appoints executive director
2010-10-06
Introducing
Free as in Freedom [WMA]
2011-02-28 Red Hat's 'obfuscated' kernel source - See
document
2011-03-04 Red Hat: 'Yes, we undercut Oracle with hidden Linux patches'
- See document
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2011-03-04 Is Red Hat violating the GPL? - See
document
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2011-04-07
Linux
kernel license violations [WMA]
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2011-07-29
GPL
compliance: A historical perspective [WMA]
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2011-08-15 Software
Freedom Conservancy directors
2012-01-30 The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement - See
document
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2012-02-01 Thoughts
on GPL enforcement
2012-05-29 GPL Compliance
Project for Linux developers
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[WMA]
2013-01-xx
Software Freedom Conservancy 2011 annual report [PDF]
2013-01-25 Software
Freedom Conservancy financial statements
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2013-02-02
GPL
compliance panel [WMA]
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2013-02-02 What is derivative work under European copyright law? - Listen
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2013-04-23 Software
Freedom Conservancy's evaluation committee
2014-01-xx
Software Freedom Conservancy 2012 annual report [PDF]
2014-01-08 Software
Freedom Conservancy financial statements
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2014-03-31 Karen Sandler
joins Conservancy's management team
2014-10-31 Software
Freedom Conservancy's petition for “Smart” TVs DMCA exemptions
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2014-11-07 Software
Freedom Conservancy, Free Software Foundation announce copyleft.org
2015-03-05 VMware
sued for failure to comply with the GPL
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2015-03-05 VMware update to Mr. Hellwig's legal proceedings - See
document
2015-03-22
GPL enforcement,
VMware lawsuit [YouTube]
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