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Sources

Stallman and the Xerox printer:

• Transcript of Richard M. Stallman’s speech, “Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation”, New York University in New York, New York on 29 May 2001: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt

Scott Miller, Apogee, id software

• “Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture”, David Kushner, Random House, 2003.
• “Doom Guy: Life in First Person”, John Romero, Abrams, 2023
• “30 Years of Rip and Tear: Doom’s development story”, presented by John Romero at WeAreDevelopers World Congress, Berlin, 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQWD2NCuqo

The GNU Project

• The Four Essential Freedoms: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
• The GNU General Public License: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html#license-text

Linus announces Linux:

• https://www.learnlinux.ie/content/linus-torvalds-original-announcement-usenet

Open Source

• Christine Peterson: “How I coined the term ‘open source’”: https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software
• Andrew Wiklas: “Linksys WRT54G and the GPL”, Linux Kernel Mailing List, 7 Jun 2003: https://lkml.org/lkml/2003/6/7/164
• “Linksys Releases GPLed Code for WRT54G”, Slashdot.org, July 06 2003 https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/07/06/2121234/linksys-releases-gpled-code-for-wrt54g
• “Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations”, fsf.org, Dec 11, 2008, https://www.fsf.org/news/2008-12-cisco-suit
• “Second German Court Upholds the GNU General Public License (GPL)”, intellectualpropertylawblog.com, September 27 2006, https://www.intellectualpropertylawblog.com/archives/second-german-court-upholds-the-gnu-general-public-license-gpl/
• “GPL passes acid test in German court”, Mayank Sharma, September 24 2006, https://www.linux.com/news/gpl-passes-acid-test-german-court/
• Steve Ballmer “Linux is a Cancer”: https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/
• GNU Affero General Public License: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

Redis License Change

• https://redis.io/blog/what-redis-license-change-means-for-our-managed-service-providers/
• https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/redis-license-change-and-forking-are-a-mess-that-everybody-can-feel-bad-about/

ServiceStack

• ServiceStack v4 announces license change: https://docs.servicestack.net/releases/v4_0_00#the-big-refactor-of-v4
• NServiceKit: https://github.com/NServiceKit/NServiceKit

xz project backdoor:

• https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz
• https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/
• https://www.wired.com/story/xz-backdoor-everything-you-need-to-know/