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Showing posts with label Free Software. Show all posts

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Spanish Consulting Company uses Debian's logo in green

[Update: Feb, 03, 2009] "As I promised here is the results of my research: So, I decided to ask in Barrapunto (the Spanish Slashdot) about the issue, and following the comments and re-reading the Debian Logo's license it seems that it could not be a "huge" violation of the Copyright law. They should just add a comment saying where the logo comes from and/or a link to the Debian project's web page. And the final obtained conclusion is that since I am not directly affected, I cannot "do more" than inform the parts involved in the case."

Surfing the Internet I founded a Spanish consulting company from the dark side of the source using a nice green logo lightly similar to the logo of the rebel group called Debian. I am not very strong in laws, and after reading the Debian Open Use Logo License, I don't really know if this becomes a violation of the it. I know that in the software galaxy the fsf take charage of violation reports of their licenses GNU GPL, LGPL, AGPL, o FDL, but I don't really know what should be the correct acting protocol in this case. Right now I am researching about it, I will post my progress...

Here you have the logos so you can check the mentioned similarities:

Debian's Logo:


Consulting Company's Logo:


"I have a very bad feeling about this."
Luke Skywalker

Monday, January 19, 2009

OpenBSD's song 4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"



Source Wars
Episode IV
Trial of the BSD Knights




"Not so very long ago
and not so far away
AT&T made system code
and gave some bits away

Some Berkeley geeks rebuilt it
better, faster, more diverse
This open thing was wonderful
for everyone on Earth

And then the roaring 90's came
The Empire changed its mind
And good old greed was back again
The geeks were in a legal bind

The Empire's Unix Lab
sued BSDi from above
The code is free but
only we can sell it bub!

The University came calling
in full protective mode
and proved the source in Net/2
didn't use the Empire's code

Then Bostic brought the Empire's books
n' slammed them dandys down
And showed the giant chunks
of BSD code all around

They didn't even give an ounce
of credit front to back
This broke the license USL
was using to attack

The case was thrown out by the judge
and "settled" out of court
And UCB was big enough
to take it like a sport

And to this day the geekfolk say
Now did we win or lose?
They shoulda made 'em reprint
every book with proper dues

And take out ads in major rags
apologetically
And maybe now it wouldn't be
the same monopoly

The Empire might have tumbled
down if everybody saw
How greed became so big
they couldn't see that glaring flaw

But only one community
the one that makes it tick
Is there to fight for everyone
exposing hypocrites

And OpenBSD is here
to tell the story right
Once again the fight is fought
and kept in shining light

And may the source be with you
May the Empire fall apart
Ya like that's gonna happen!
But we gotta keep heart!"

Download song, more here.

Que?!
Darth Vader.

Monday, December 15, 2008

A NEW HOPE

It is a period of code war.
Rebel Open-Source Hackers,
striking from a hidden bases,
have won their first victory against
the Evil Privative Code Galactic Empire.

During the battle, Rebel
spies managed to steal secret
plans to the Empire's
ultimate weapon, politic
manipulation, an armored
tool with enough power
to destroy several entire
world communities.

Pursued by the Empire's
privative code sinister agents,
Open Source Jedi Hackers
race around the galaxy
aboard their starships,
custodian of the code that
can save their people and restore
open-source freedom to
the whole software galaxy...
 
The power of the source

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