It should be the Ghibli studio masterpieces of animation (and any short film) as “My Neighbor Totoro,” “Spirited Away” or “Castle in the Sky.” The Japanese studio, working since 1995 (for “Princess Mononoke”) with the animation software Toonz, broadcasts since March 26, an open source version OpenToonz., Reports ActuaLitté.
It is limited compared to the paid premium version, but with tools like “those created to capture the breeze in the trees, food seems too good, and the permanent emergency that inhabits the Miyazaki movies” , according to Beckett Mufson, journalist Creators Project. It states that this software release was a condition of the sale of the Italian Digital Video to the Japanese publisher Dwango.
Toonz has also been used by Matt Groening (father of the “Simpsons”) for his TV series “Futurama”
Jurisprudence. the source code of a public software is an administrative document which citizens can access
“In its decision of 10 March 2016, the Paris administrative court said the source codes of a public software are administrative documents to which citizens can access “(Legalis.net) confirming the opinion of 8 January 2015 the Committee on access to administrative Documents (Cada). “As a result, they are communicated to anyone who requests it, provided that such access does not infringe looking for tax offenses and the rights of others.”
This decision is obviously welcomed by April, which welcomes that “judges are taking the opportunity to give a lesson in law to the Ministry of Finance and confirming our request for publication of the legal notice concerning alleged legal inconsistency about the amendments’ priority to free software ” [about the bill for a digital republic].
libriste Association reports the blog post where the applicant has obtained this jurisprudence tells his journey -. a year and eight months to get access to the source code called the administration
Linux foundation’s Free Course on open source compliance
the Linux foundation announces open enrollment to its new course LFC191, entitled Open source compliance Basics for developers ( “introduction to the open source compliance for developers”).
This free course (in English) is “designed to bring the knowledge software developers on issues related to legal and licensing within the framework of the creation and use of open source software. “
the foundation believes that” compliance with licenses open source is not complicated, but it requires some training and is essential to our days as part of creating or contributing to open source code bases. ”
The course “teaches developers the central role of copyright in the context of open source as well as important information concerning the laws and patents related to copyright licenses that s’ apply to open source. the objective of the course is to help streamline the compliance process. “
the course of five modules with lessons and exercises and a final review of validation, is broadcast under Creative Commons CC bY-SA 4.0. This allows “anyone to share course materials free and the option to leave opinions and to suggest improvements, as with any project of open source software.”
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Hackathon – The administration lends you his toy – March 11, 2016
Digital Law: skirmish on free software to the Assembly – January 21, 2016
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