A. Kipta's Blog 01/31/2012 (a.m.)

• The Not-So Private Parts - Forbes

  It looks like the Department of Homeland Security’s three-year-long practice of monitoring social media has paid off. They prevented some United Kingdom tourists with plans to “destroy America” from entering the country and partying it into oblivion.

  tags: twiter homeland_security social_media

• FOSS Licences Wars

  This article gives an overview of the various options in picking up a licence for one’s Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project, and tries to give some guidelines for choosing one.

  tags: foss open_source licensing

• FOSS Licensing/Scenarios - Wikibooks, open books for an open world

  Different stakeholders will have different uses for FOSS. A developer might use a program more intensively than an end-user, which means that the developer’s activities might be subject to more restrictions than an end-user. The following section tries to provide some scenarios as examples to explain the different legal issues that may arise for different stakeholders.

  tags: foss open_source licensing

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