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Moglen's attention to it -- so that Prof. I am uncertain whether Bruce in fact has yet spoken to Prof. However, I do hope he does, and that Prof.

Moglen reconsiders the in effect endorsement, which in my view SugarCRM has very much not deserved. This, of course, is It is about required legal notices e.

Clause 7b says that "Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal Notices displayed by works containing it" are permitted, but I very much doubt that FSF had in mind required, immutable runtime display of trademarked logos and advertising on every user interface screen of the program and all derivatives -- which has the obvious effect of severely impairing freedom of third-party commercial use.

In YPL's case, the clause that makes it non-free is 3. Is it GPL v. Looks pretty good when you look at install. Additional Terms. I wonder whether FSF concurs that a trademarked logo required to remain on every user interface screen at runtime qualifies as a "reasonable author attribution" -- the genuine need for attribution having always been amply met by comment lines in source code.

Interview Supply chain woes continue to batter the tech industry but that didn't deter the makers of the diminutive Microlino from introducing a new electric vehicle amid a pandemic and chip shortage. We last looked at the Microlino in , when the bubble-like electric car was shown off at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Not that the two-passenger and three beer-crate Isetta-inspired vehicle would have won any prizes for velocity, thanks to a maximum speed of 90kph.

Still, in a market awash with concepts and dreams that are far from production, the Microlino looked to us to be an intriguingly practical proposition for urban transport.

On Call A warning from the past in today's On Call. Helpfulness is not always rewarded with a pat on the back and a slap-up meal on expenses. Our tale comes from a reader Regomised as Derek and concerns his time working for a multinational with plants at multiple locations in the UK. A cry for help had to be answered within the hour.

One of the plants would start production at on Monday mornings, but started work four hours earlier to make sure things were up to speed. It had two main buildings. One was an office unit, housing the comms and server rooms. The other had an equipment room, with switches and patch panels as well as an operations room with client PCs and expensively large monitors. In conjunction with a White House meeting on Thursday at which technology companies discussed the security of open source software, Google proposed three initiatives to strengthen national cybersecurity.

The meeting was arranged last month by US national security adviser Jake Sullivan, amid the scramble to fix the Log4j vulnerabilities that occupied far too many people over the holidays. Sullivan asked invited firms — a group that included Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle — to share ideas on how the security of open source projects might be improved.

Google chief legal officer Kent Walker in a blog post said that just as the government and industry have worked to shore up shoddy legacy systems and software, the Log4j repair process — still ongoing — has demonstrated that open source software needs the same attention as critical infrastructure.

Apple's having a problem retaining top chip personnel, with the latest defection being CPU architect Mike Filippo going to Microsoft. As chief compute architect at Microsoft, Filippo will design server chips for the software giant, according to media reports.

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