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  • Software laws 'clarified' by Victorian OSS body

    Open Source Victoria, a government-funded software body, published a briefing paper on Tuesday designed to demystify some of the legal issues surrounding copyrights and patents in the software industry.

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    Australia's peak open source body has fresh faces on its board and a renewed focus: the public sector.

  • Is the FOSS community divided?

    One Linux Australia past president thinks so. In other Linux.conf.au coverage, a leading IT lawyer claims that an expensive and ineffective patent regime is hampering the work of Australia's software community.

  • Aussie lawyer wants 'clearer' GPL

    Australian open source lawyer Brendan Scott says the next version of the GNU General Public License (GPL) should be made clearer and include legal terms relevant to jurisdictions like Australia.

  • Favour us over proprietary software: OSS advocates

    Federal politicians should dump their policy of procurement neutrality and actively encourage agencies to adopt open source software, OSS supporters claim.

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  • Mini-Confs Day 2

    Mini-conferences continued to be the order of the day at Linux Conference Australia 2007.

  • Is the FOSS community divided?

    One Linux Australia past president thinks so. In other Linux.conf.au coverage, a leading IT lawyer claims that an expensive and ineffective patent regime is hampering the work of Australia's software community.

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