A UK statute provides that law enforcement can demand encryption keys to obtain text of encrypted materials. The Register has article on an animal rights activist to which an decryption demand was made recently.
An interesting article on how Microsoft patent claims are complicated by GPLv3.
An interesting article on why Google chose the Apache Software License over GPLv2 for Android.
Citrix Systems, Inc. acquired XenSource, Inc., for approximately $500 million in a combination of cash and Citrix common stock. The Xen project, which which develops a virtualization engine, was led by XenSource’s co-founder, who became a Citrix employee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
