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Software Freedom Law Center is a non profit that offers direct services to nonprofit FLOSS developers without charge, as well as publications for everyone that publishes the results of its legal analysis of various FLOSS-related legal issues. Software Freedom Law Center site is h3r3 .

Organizations that are interested in using open source in their own products but are worries of intellectual property issues might want to examine a new, mostly free, assistance program just launched by the non-profit Linux Foundation. The Open Compliance Program includes an assessment checklist, training programs and software tools to monitor open source software usage. Especially in the growing field of mobile device and consumer electronics manufacturers, software development often involves use of multiple programs -- many open source -- in a single stack, said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation. - "You have a really complicated supply chain, where you might get source code coming from lots of different places, whether it is a chipset vendor, a mobile handset provider or embedded software vendor," he said.  - "Managing open source license compliance is complicated." - "What we were looking for is [a way] to solve this complexity a...

WayFinder is a navigation software that Vodafone Paid 31Million USD since two years “Given our decision to stop developing turn by turn location based services as part of our core business, it seemed an obvious choice to make the code we own open source,” Voda’s internet director Pieter Knook, who led the original acquisition says in the announcement. “We look forward to seeing its continued use in all sorts of different applications in the future.” The New Open Source Navigation Software WayFinder website is h3r3 Project is released under BSD License  and available on GitHub, Open Source WayFinder Source code could be h3r3 Vodafone was planning to use WayFinder for location aware marketing services

Adobe has announced that its partnering with Sourceforge to expand its open-source offerings and have more flexibility with the related programs. Basically, all of Adobe’s open-source and standards efforts will be hosted and managed on Sourceforge through the site’s new developer platform. Adobe is actually the first customer of the newly launched platform. Adobe has grouped all of its ‘openess’ programs, source code hosting, specifications and contributions to standards organizations, under the Open@Adobe banner. The new site is now live over at sourceforge.net/adobe .  List of Adobe Open Source Projects is h3r3 Reference URL is h3r3

USE OPEN SOURCE is UK government officials' answer to Prime Minister David Cameron's request for ideas to cut expenses, suggesting that the civil service stop buying Microsoft software in favour of free alternatives. Last month Cameron asked more than a half million UK government workers for cost-cutting suggestions to help trim Britain's looming fiscal deficit. Over 56,000 ideas were submitted and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne published a sample of them on Friday 9 July. Details are h3r3

The Ubuntu Manual Project just released "Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04" it is free to download Ubuntu Linux Tutorial/book/manual Site could be found h3r3 .

The Free Technology Academy does not only continue after the initial period supported by the EC's Lifelong Learning Programme, we also expand the number of courses available! We hope to keep growing and are working towards a complete International Masters Programme. In this newsletter the tentative programme for 2011, our discount policies, news on the fascinating lecture by Jon 'maddog' Hall and an introduction to our future plans. == 1. FTA Programme 2011 == The Free Technology Academy offers three rounds of courses in 2011. Registrations for these courses are now open! The programme is tentative and subject to changes. Should a module be cancelled by the FTA, tuition fees will of course be fully refunded. In the following list you will find all the courses available: * The Concepts of Free Software & Open Standards * GNU/Linux Basic * GNU/Linux Advanced * Free Software Utilities * Network Technologies * Web Applications * Software Development * Implementation of ...