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CC0 is the default choice of the Dutch Government

As mentioned on the Creative Commons blog, the Dutch Government has decided that all content (that it holds the copyright or otherwise to), which is published at its main web-site, from 2010 as the default choice will be release under the Creative Commons license CC0 (Creative Commons Zero). Under the CC0 the copyright holder can waive all [...]
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Danish Open Source Vendors declares victory in open standards war

Many years ago (10 December 2003), I helped to cofound an organisation with the aim of uniting all the good forces to promote the commercial use of open source in Denmark. The result was The Danish Open Source Vendors’ Association (aka OSL – an acronym from the Danish name Foreningen af Open Source Leverandører). Yesterday, [...]
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Open source in India

It was a great experience for me for the second year in a row to speak in India for a mostly Indian audience on open source legal issues. Last year the annual ITECHLAW Asia conference took place in New Delhi. This year the conference took place in Bangalore and I spoke on Distribution in Open [...]
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Distribution in Open source

Yesterday I gave a presentation at the 2010 annual ITECHLAW Asia conference in Bangalore titled Distribution in Open Source. The presentation is available in long and short versions at Slideshare. It seems to me that most legal issues regarding open source licenses only arise when the user (the licensee) has actually distributed the original open source [...]
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