Copyright, patents, licensing, community. The usual. Only more so.

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“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.”

# The Guardian reported that US copyright lobby wants the US government to consider OSS the equivalent of piracy.

# Jim Zemlin has dismissed Microsoft’s patent agreement with Amazon.

# Richard Stallman explained why he will not sign the Public Domain Manifesto.

# Brian Aker clarified the licensing requirements related to the Drizzle project.

# Bruce Momjian wrote about the removal of personal copyright notices from PostgreSQL.

# Matt Asay asked “Will open source ever be completely free?”

# Jaspersoft reported some statistics suggesting momentum behind its open source software community.

# Ian Skerrett outlined attempts to increase community participation at the Eclipse Foundation.

# Abiquo announced that abiCloud 1.0.0 has been formally released under the LGPL version 3.

# Accenture’s Kit Plummer explained how to get smarter about open source.

# Actuate shared some stats on its BIRT Exchange Marketplace contributions.

# The H reported that the Cassandra database has been accepted as an Apache Top-Level Project.

# Sendmail claimed record setting revenues in Q4 and FY2009.

# Ingres is targeting cloud computing opportunities.

# Novell outlined its approach to virtualization.

# OStatic published “Measuring FAIL: A Scorecard for Evaluating Open Source Projects”.

# The Register published “Open source – the once and future dream”.