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GPL v3 Last Call
The FSF just announced that the last draft of the GPL v3 is ready for review and comment. The FSF will hear comments for the next month and expects to officially publish the license on Friday, June 29, 2007.
To participate, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org.
Changes in this draft include:
GPLv3 is now compatible with version 2.0 of the Apache [...]
php|works 2006: General Followup
php/db|works ended yesterday in the early afternoon after the most merciful (read brief) closing keynote I have attended (Thanks Marco!) Congratulations to Marco, Sean, Arbi and crew for running a nice community-centric event! It was small, but it was also easy to have nice conversations with many of the attendees and the atmosphere was [...]
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Slides from php|works
A PDF version of the slides from my php|works session are now online. Download Contracts & Licenses for PHP Developers.
Have any questions - feel free to drop me a line. :)
Tags: License, PHP, Uncategorized
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php|works: The eZ plan
I will be attending php|architect's php/db|works conference in Toronto from September 13 to 15.
While I am there, my eZ systems plans and priorities are:
Give a good talk
Find leads for our partners (esp. those in Canada, Mexico and the United States of America)
Avoid getting any sicker - I have this irritating chest infection that traveling doesn't [...]
php|works: Mozilla agenda
I am attending php|architect's php/db|works conference in Toronto from September 13 to 15.
While I am there, my Mozilla-related priorities and activities are pretty simple
Give a good talk
Develop and test draft questions to use in interviewing people about the Mozilla Foundation.
Don't get any sicker - I have this irritating chest infection that traveling doesn't seem to [...]
Don't get pwn3d: Why Professionalism Matters In Community Discussions
Some years ago (as penance for working at MySQL during some temporary corporate brain-damage about Free Software licensing) I began volunteering at the Free Software Foundation.
For the most part, I have spent my time providing support on Free Software licensing questions for the FSF Compliance Lab and helping out on the GPL v3 effort.
While both [...]
Barcelona to host the 3rd Intl. Conference on the GPL v3
The 3rd international conference on GPL v3 will take place in Barcelona, Spain on June 22nd and 23rd. The international GPLv3 conferences are part of a year-long public consultation process to update the GNU General Public License.
Speakers include Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, chairman at Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and Georg Greve, President of Free [...]
Creating MozillaFoundation.org
One of my current tasks at the Mozilla Foundation is getting mozillafoundation.org up and running. Of course, we have all the needed infrastructure, design help and so on - this leaves just a few major tasks for me, namely:
identifying content on mozilla.org that should live on mozillafoundation.org,
collecting, revising and creating content as needed,
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Audio for Copyright, Contracts and Licensing for PHP Developers session
The organizers of the PHP Québec Conference were gracious enough to give me an unedited copy of my Copyright, Contracts and Licensing for PHP Developers session.
I cleaned the audio up last night, stripping out some of the more odious filler words (I seem to say "Umm" rather often), shortening pauses as I switched slides, removing [...]
Slides from PHP Québec Conf 2006
Slides from my presentations at the PHP Québec Conference are below:
Copyright, Contracts and Licenses for PHP Developers (PDF, 650KiB)
SQLite: A fast, transactional DBMS embedded in PHP 5 (PDF, 55KiB)
I will make the audio of the licensing session, along with a transcript, available as soon as possible.
Update:
Audio now available.
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