oCricket Blog » News http://blog.ocricket.com What's happening at oCricket Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:39:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Mapjack http://blog.ocricket.com/httpwwwmapjackcom-is-a-very-intere/ http://blog.ocricket.com/httpwwwmapjackcom-is-a-very-intere/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:32:26 +0000 harshad http://11.ocricket.com/httpwwwmapjackcom-is-a-very-intere/ Mapjack is a very interesting project if you love mapping and couch riding. Sheer genius!

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The Good thing is that our beta releases are well in-lined with Django releases and we should be using the Stable Django 1.0 release or the latest stable version when we go public beta.

]]> http://blog.ocricket.com/django-10-beta-1-released/feed/ 0 Free licenses upheld by US "IP" court http://blog.ocricket.com/free-licenses-upheld-by-us-ip-court/ http://blog.ocricket.com/free-licenses-upheld-by-us-ip-court/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:32:33 +0000 Brajeshwar http://11.ocricket.com/?p=27 Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (THE “IP” court in the US) has held that free licenses such as the CC licenses set conditions (rather than covenants) on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the condition, the license disappears, meaning you’re simply a copyright infringer. This is the theory of the GPL and all CC licenses. Put precisely, whether or not they are also contracts, they are copyright licenses which expire if you fail to abide by the terms of the license. (Via: Lessig)

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