Carlo Piana, New Chair Person Of The Open Source Initiative

The Open Source Initative (OSI) has announced that Carlo Piana is the new Chair of the Board. OSI is the 25-years established steward of the Open Source Definition, the yardstick that defines if certain software is Open Source. Carlo has been serving as a Board Member and Vice Secretary of the California-based entity since April [...]

By |2024-01-17T23:06:06+01:00October 6th, 2023|free software, open source|0 Comments

Array joins Software Defined Veichle at Eclipse

Array joins Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Working Group in Eclipse, becomes supporter member, along with an impressive lineup. SDV is the project to define and create an open technology platform for the software defined vehicle of the future; focused on accelerating innovation of automotive-grade in-car software stacks using open source and open specifications We plan [...]

By |2022-10-20T09:03:38+01:00October 20th, 2022|FLOSS, free software, intellectual property, open source, stdandard|0 Comments

Array joins the Eclipse Foundation and Oniro Working Group

We have become a partner of Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse is one of the world largest and more important Free and Open Source Software hosting and specification settings foundations. In Eclipse Array will also join the Oniro Working Group as a Silver Member. Array is an array of IT lawyers concentrating in particular on Free and [...]

The Italian Edition of the Drone Journalism Operation Manual will be presented at the Rome Maker Faire

At the Rome Maker Faire, which starts on the 14th of October 2016, Giovanni Battista Gallus, LL.M. Ph.D will present the Italian edition of the Drone Journalism Operation Manual, created by Matt Waite and Ben Kreimer of the University of  Nebraska-Lincoln's Drone Journalism Lab through generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Drone [...]

By |2019-12-04T14:15:05+01:00October 13th, 2016|Uncategorized|0 Comments

One continent, one law (?)

Last saturday was the twentieth anniversary of the European data protection legislation. On October the 24th of 1995, the Directive 95/46/EC was approved. It was a turning point for all Member States, in order to remove the obstacles to the free flow of personal data, the level of protection of the rights and freedoms of [...]

By |2019-12-04T14:15:06+01:00October 26th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments

The API in the States After the Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in Oracle v. Google

So the API in the States are copyrighted matter, following to US Supreme Court denial of a certiorari asked by Google? TL;DR: probably not https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/bad-news-supreme-court-refuses-review-oracle-v-google-api-copyright-decision Background. In Europe SAS Institue v. World Programming Language set the law saying that copyright will not apply to programming languages, file formats, API. So far it's the decision going [...]

By |2019-12-04T14:15:07+01:00June 30th, 2015|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Italy is latest to promote open source software in public procurements

In December, the Italian government issued final rules implementing a change to procurement law that now requires all public administrations in the country to first consider re-used or free software before committing to proprietary licenses. Importantly, the new rules include an enforcement mechanism, which can, at least in theory, annul decisions that do not follow [...]

By |2014-02-28T09:23:05+01:00February 28th, 2014|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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