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| Less may be more: copyleft, right and the case law on APIs on both sides of the Atlantic | Like any relatively young area of law, copyright on software is surrounded by some legal uncertainty. Even more so in the context of copyleft open source licenses, since these licenses in some respects aim for goals that are the opposite of regular software copyright law. This article provides an analysis of the reciprocal effect of the GPL-family of copyleft software licenses (the GPL, LGPL and the AGPL) from a mostly copyright perspective as well as an analysis of the extent to which the SAS/WPL case affects this family of copyleft software licenses. In this article the extent to which the GPL and AGPL reciprocity clauses have a wider effect than those of the LGPL is questioned, while both the SAS/WPL jurisprudence and the Oracle vs Google case seem to affirm the LGPL dynamic linking criterium. The net result is that the GPL may not be able to be more copyleft than the LGPL. | 5-14 |
| Lisping Copyleft: A Close Reading of the Lisp LGPL | The idioms of both the General Public License (the GPL) and the Lesser General Public License (the LGPL) seem to be grounded in the C programming language. This article analyses the Lisp Lesser General Public License (colloquially and here referred to as the LLGPL), a specific attempt to apply the LGPL to a language with a programming paradigm and method of building and distributing programs that traditionally differs substantially from the approach of C. In addition, this article attempts to understand whether the LLGPL actually succeeds in its stated goal of translating the LGPL to the Lisp context or whether the LLGPL changes the requirements and philosophical moorings of the LGPL. | 15-30 |
| The Rise and Evolution of the Open Source Software Foundation | Free and open source software (FOSS) project communities continue to grow and thrive. When such projects reach a critical point in their growth, corporations express in participating. Corporations have more stringent robust software intellectual property (IP) management, however, and projects are not always up to the task. Neutral non-profit FOSS foundations have proved to be a solution to these problems, providing for the IP management needs of corporations while offering additional business and technical services to the project communities to encourage further growth and adoption. This article reviews how such neutral non-profit organizations have grown to meet the evolving legal, business, and technical needs of FOSS communities and businesses. | 31-42 |
| FOSS in the Italian public administration: fundamental law principles | We take a first reading of the recent modification to the fundamental law that governs the digital aspects of the Public Administration in Italy. These modifications require Public Administrations to prefer internally made solutions and FOSS solutions over proprietary ones, mandate an increased degree of interoperability and strengthen the push for open data. | 43-50 |
