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• Debian, Berkeley DB, and AGPLv3 [April 18, 2026]
  Or effectively why most of the free software world keeps on using BerkleyDB 5.x instead of the later versions under AGPLv3+proprietary
• in this post, i rant about licensing [April 18, 2026]
  Roughly afio IANAL license, with also state of FSF-Approved distros (which is mere reactive policy rather than proactive with audits)
• Judge dismisses Vizio's call for summary judgment [April 18, 2026]
  The Order echoes SFC arguments in court that the claim is not preempted by copyright law and that consumers like SFC have standing to enforce the GPL as third-party beneficiaries to the GPL — without any action by copyright holders of copylefted code.
• Licenses & Standards | Open Source Initiative [April 18, 2026]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• List of formerly open-source or free software - Wikipedia [April 18, 2026]
  Very much a list of shame, except for the continuation forks
• SCALE — The life and times of the AGPL [April 18, 2026]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• SPDX License List | Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) [April 18, 2026]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• The [Original] BSD License Problem [April 18, 2026]
  "[…]the license used for BSD until 1999 had a special problem — the “obnoxious BSD advertising clause.” It said that every advertisement mentioning the software must include a particular sentence[…]"
• The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the guily and the irresponsible. [April 18, 2026]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• The Open Source Definition | Open Source Initiative [April 18, 2026]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)
• Various Licenses and Comments about Them - GNU Project [April 18, 2026]
  (sem descrição no XBEL)

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