Month March 2003

IETF Patents and GPL

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Lawrence E. Rosen warns the Open Source community about IETF patents in the OSI discussion mailinglist:

“As I understand the GPL, none of the IETF standards that include that patented technology can be implemented under the GPL because of its Section 7.

Any open source projects implementing IETF standards should carefully review the IETF IPR list to ensure that they have proper patent licenses.”

An additional remark by Eben Moglen states:

“Moreover, patents are not global, only local. To say that we cannot *develop* under GPL because a patent exists in country X, and a license has been published there to which those making, using, or selling in country X *might* be asked to subscribe would go much too far. That situation certainly does not prevent development elsewhere, and distribution under GPL can certainly proceed.”

Find the whole thread here.

The php|architect Grant Program

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“We’ve established the php|architect Grant Program with the purpose of providing financial support for the PHP-related open-source projects that have the potential of bringing the greatest benefit to the PHP community in general.

On June 30, we will announce the assignments of two $1,000 grants to as many projects selected among those who will have entered into the program.”

http://www.phparch.com/grant/

php|architect is a magazine for PHP programmers.

ordnas at php.net

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Sandro is now member of the PHP development team with access to the pear and peardoc CVS – hooray 😉 His PHP email address is ordnas at php dot net. You wonder why his user name is “ordnas”? Well, read it backwards 😉