Monthly Archives: February 2007

Alfresco, an Open Source license!

A few days ago, I’ve expressed my concern about the attribution clause (not longer available on their website) added to the MPL 1.1 in the Alfresco ECM. Today, Alfresco released the Alfresco 2.0 Community Release of their ECM under the … Continue reading

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European Union Public Licence v.1.0 is available

The European Union Public Licence 1.0 (EUPL v.1.0) was approved by the European Commission on 9 January 2007. This page contains the official versions in English, French and German together with a preamble explaining the purpose of this Open Source … Continue reading

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Alfresco, not really an open source license

Alfresco, the Entreprise Content Management uses an Alfresco open source licence that has not been accepted yet by the Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org) due to one attribution clause added in the Mozilla Public Licence v1.1. Before deploying Alfresco be sure … Continue reading

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To read and write Open Document Format documents directly with Microsoft Word

Based on BSD like licence, Microsoft sponsored a great interoperable tool between the Open Document Format and Office OpenXML. The tool allows Microsoft Word users to open and save ODF files. Source: http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/

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Welcome to i14y.net Online Community

i14y name Abbreviation for `interoperability’, with the `14′ replacing fourteen letters. Refers to portability and compatibility of data formats (even binary ones) between different programs or implementations of the same program on different machines.

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