JUnit, the popular unit testing framework for java, is licensed under the Common Public License 1.0. Unfortunately, CPL seems to be incompatible with both GPL version 2 and 3 [1][2][3].
This case has mostly stayed under the media radar, but it seems to be finally finishing up.
There isn’t much more to say about the kind of person who attempts something like this.
I recently noticed that one of the channels I had been chatting on was being logged, and made publicly available for search engines to index. There’s nothing new about public logging of IRC – in past I’ve run into channels that announce public logging in the topic, and sometimes chosen to refrain from contributing to the discussion. However, the way I discovered the logging this time was a much less comfortable – I ran into the logs when googling for something…
Nokia Sports Tracker is a nifty service (and S60 application) that allows you to store your walking/running/cycling/etc trip data in a file, and then upload it to the service. This file will contain the GPS coordinates you were on during your trip, allowing generation of nice graphs of average speed at the different parts of the trip, a map of the trip and so on. The data can also be exported and then imported to Google Earth of Google Maps for example. You can also upload pictures you took on the trip, and you’ll be able to see what position on the map you took them at.
It all seems free (for now) and nice, but a closer look at the Terms of Service does reveal something unpleasant.
I thought I’d have a look at Nokia’s Share on Ovi, but then this caught my eye in the Terms of Service:
The license you grant to Nokia is a worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute the content you provide (including any commentary or electronic files of any type), and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, your content.
Uh-huh. I don’t know if I’m reading this wrong or what, but I think I’ll steer away from Share, at least for now…
