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Media Player VLC Removed from Apple Store
Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) imposed by Apple on its App Store make the iconic VLC Media Player an outlaw there. Legal contradictions (DRM vs GPL) deprive Apple users of one of the best video players.
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OpenWGA: A Java Web CMS with Features and Freedom, Kinda
German web content management vendor Innovation Gate Gmbh decided earlier this year to rebrand version 5 of their Java-based product as open source. Let's take a look at what they're offering and where it fits. What is OpenWGA? OpenWGA is a dual licensed, Java-based Web CMS and web application
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Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in June 2010
Welcome to the June installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at [email protected] with a pointer to who we should contact at
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Squiz Open Sources Its SSV Modules, Offers an Easy Edit Suite
Squiz (news, site ) breaks away from its normal monthly update news to bring breaking details about a bunch of updates, adjustments and improvements to both MySource Matrix and MySource Mini.
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Ringing in the New Year with Clean Intellectual Property
In 2008, the open source community saw the year end with a headline catching lawsuit, the Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for General Public License (GPL) violations. Not to be outdone, 2009 also ended with a bang.
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Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in February 2010
Welcome to the February installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next month. If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at [email protected] with a pointer to who we should contact
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WordPress Protects and Serves with New Foundation
WordPress (news, site) just launched their own Superman. Labeled the WordPress Foundation, the non-profit org is designed to “democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.” In other words, and straight from the horse’s mouth : The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity,
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Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in November 2009
Welcome to the November 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days. If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at [email protected] with a pointer to who we
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CMS Made Simple Hits 750,000 Downloads
Since its launch in 2004, CMS Made Simple (news, site ) has hit the three quarters of a million mark with more than 500 copies of the latest version being downloaded per day.
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Automattic Open Sources SaaS Editorial, Publishing Tools
One of the simplest methods of ensuring that your published words don't end up looking functionally illiterate is to use a spell checker. But what if you're in need of a bit more help ? You could pay an editor or make an agreement with a friend to edit each
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Open Source Is Not Just a Marketing Term
Even before economies around the world got into a bit of a bind, the term open source was growing more and more popular.
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Joomla Multi Site Support Nearing Completion
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. One of the students accepted into the program was Naveen Gavini, an undergraduate Computer Engineering and Computer Science student at New Jersey-based Rutgers University.
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WordPress: Themes 100% GPL or Bust
WordPress (news, site ) made a small announcement today regarding whether or not the GPL applies to themes. WordPress refers to the GPL as their Bill of Rights, but we like to think of it as a free software license.
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Joomla Extensions Directory Now Exclusively GPL
The Joomla Web CMS project -- as many of you well know -- is based on the GNU General Public License (GPL ). This means, among other things, that the Joomla project generally has an ethos of encouraging collaboration, community and free software.
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