U.S. Federal Law

A Munich district court has hit Sitecom Germany GmbH with a preliminary injunction forbidding it to distribute a wireless access router, model WL-122, unless it conforms to the GNU General Public License. The GPL has only been the subject of a court decision once before when, in the summer of 2001, a Massachusetts federal court ruled that the license was "binding" and "enforceable" during a dispute between MySQL AB and its one-time US distributor NuSphere, a subsidiary of Progress Software. Subsequently, IBM has based part of its countersuit against the SCO Group on the GPL, but IBM's claims have yet to be tried in court. Anyway, the open source netfilter/iptables project, which has been going around quietly enforcing the GPL with other companies, claims the Sitecom router is based on software that it developed and licenses for free under the GPL and that Sitecom refu... (more)

NewsWatch September, 2000

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Escola de Linux and Linux na escola

Brazil. Samba, Soccer, Carnaval, Caipirinhas and Churrasco. And, of course, Open Source. The Latin American nation of 180 million is among the world's leaders in both government-backed and grass-roots adoption of Free and Open Software (FOSS), with growing deployment in the public sector, in the banking and retail industries, and by educational institutions, both for infrastructure and curriculum use. Moreover, Brazil is home to dozens of FOSS projects and to some illustrious proponents of Linux, including kernel maintainer Marcelo Tosatti and pop star minister of culture, Gilber... (more)

NextWave Wireless Retains Deutsche Bank and UBS to Explore the Sale of Its Wireless Spectrum Holdings in the U.S.

NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE), a global provider of advanced mobile multimedia and wireless broadband technologies, announced that it has retained Deutsche Bank and UBS Investment Bank to explore the sale of its extensive spectrum holdings in the United States. NextWave’s U.S. spectrum footprint covers over 251 million people, or pops, in the United States and includes major markets such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, and Detroit. The company’s holdings include licenses and lease rights for a total of 4... (more)

Supremes Throw Possible Monkey Wrench into Intel's Defenses

The US Supreme Court has ruled seven to one against Intel and told it that federal courts can to require it to turn over documents to European antitrust investigators because of the EC's quasi-judicial functions. The Supremes, however, added that a federal court isn't obligated to help out a foreign jurisdiction and sent the case court back to the lower court from whence it came to sort out exactly how much cooperation should reasonably be given to the Europeans, who, Intel says, aren't much interested in the stuff to be begin with. See, Intel was hoping to find sanctuary with th... (more)