Archived mailing lists
Thu, Jun 15th 2006 18:02 Posted by webmaster
As part of the migration from Plone to Wordpress and related pieces of software, the old mailing lists have been extracted from Plone and archived. Hereafter, mailing lists will be organised as follows:
- ossg-committee@ossg.bcs.org
- This list is used for discussing committee business. The archives are open but only committee members may join the list.
- ossg-announcements@ossg.bcs.org
- This is a low-traffic list used for OSSG event announcements. Posting is restricted to committee members.
- ossg-members@ossg.bcs.org
- A members discussion list, though we would prefer members to discuss issues using the blog comment pages.
The old mailing list archives may be found here:
- Committee Forum
- Committee discussion
- Business
- Discussion of issues surround business and open source.
- Member Forum
- Member event announcements
- Licensing
- Licensing discussion
- eGovernment and Open Source
- Discussion of Open Source in eGovernment
- Knowledge Management and Open Source
- Using open source for knowledge management
- Agile Methods and Open Source
- Relationship between Agile Methods and Open Source
- Legal Issues surrounding Open Source
- Discussion of legal issues involvng Open Source
- Accessibility and Open Source
- Discussion of Accessiblity in Open Source
- Education and Open Source
- Use of Open Source in Education
Apologies for any duplicate messages etc. The archives were produced by screen-scraping the old Plone site. Not ideal.
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Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
Tue, Apr 26th 2005 18:36 Posted by markelkins
The article shown below, which I originally posted on the now reorganized Members Forum in February 2005 has some relevance to the Licensing Issues in OSS Discussion Forum as well as topics in this Discussion Forum. It highlights an organization that has been created to provide free legal support to free and open source software (FOSS) projects.
The original article was prompted by a posting by cboldyreff at 2005-02-03 11:18 AM on a different topic about an ACM TechNews item headlined - Open-Source Leaders Accept New Challenges.
• Re: Open Source item in ACM TechNews Posted by markelkins at 2005-02-03 02:16 PM
Yes a very interesting article giving a snap-shot idea of the organization of Open Source Development.
On the same page as this article is another “Open Source Law Center Opens Doors”. The full article can be found at http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3466751
Clearly with an initial $4 million investment from Open Source Development Labs for the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) things are getting serious on the legal front. Plans are being made to establish other centres outside the USA.
Mark Elkins
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EU Software Patent Directive Proposal
Mon, Feb 28th 2005 11:42 Posted by markelkins
According to an article in Computer Weekly (2005, 25 January, p.10) the proposed EU Software Patent Directive states that software that does no more than operate in a computer cannot be patented. It has to have a technical application to be patented. Therefore software that controls an aircraft would be patentable, but that used in a business process to book a flight on it would not be.
From an Open Source perspective this potentially means that a patent search would be required each time software for a technical application is created to ensure no legal infringement takes place. This might be seen as placing a straitjacket on creativity by some or a much needed control on plagiarism
by others.
What do other OSSG members think or know about this proposed EU Directive?
Mark Elkins
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