Red Hat and Novell Sued on Open Source Patent Issue
October 17, 2007- According to news reports, IP Innovation and Technology Licensing Corporation sued Red Hat and Novell on patents related to the Linux user interface. The complaint can be found here.

  SFLC Files Suit to Enforce GPL
September 20, 2007- According to news reports, the Software Freedom Law Center has filed suit against a consumer electronics company for use of GPL code in an embedded system without compliance with the GPL. The complaint can be found here.

  Draft GNU AGPL
August 14, 2007- The Free Software Foundation has released a discussion draft of the GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL). The AGPL differs from the GPL in that it provides that users who interact with the software over a network can receive the source for that program. The text of the draft can be found here.

  Judge: Novell Owns Unix Copyrights
August 10, 2007- A federal district court judge in Utah ruled that Novell, not the SCO Group, is the rightful owner of the copyrights covering the Unix operating system. This is a potentially fatal blow to the SCO complaint against IBM, as it means that SCO may not own what SCO says IBM misappropriated. Here is a copy of the 102 page decision in pdf format.