Free software inside a technology park
Technical notes on using Linux, Apache and GPL licensing inside a technology park near Pisa, in the spring of 2002.
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Licences, project governance, free software in public administration and in business.
Three licences in twelve months: the founding of the Python Software Foundation
Between 2000 and 2001 the rights to Python changed hands three times. The founding of the Python Software Foundation closes a season of fragmented licences and shows why a project's governance weighs as much as its code.
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The four freedoms and copyleft: how the GPL works
Free software is defined by the permissions it grants over source code, not by its price. What the four freedoms guarantee and why copyleft makes them inherited.
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Open-source software in a small business: reading the licence
What actually changes when a small company builds its infrastructure on open-source software: licences, copyleft, supplier dependence.
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