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Free Software Foundation Begins Overhaul of GPL (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News) - The Free Software Foundation (FSF) plans to revise the license that regulates the use of open-source software. A draft version of the GNU General Public License will be released in January.

Sun Giving Away Enterprise Software (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News) - Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) has announced it will provide software for free in an effort to create more interest in the company's services.

Health software firm MedcomSoft announces licence deal; stock jumps over 11% (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) - TORONTO (CP) - Stock in MedcomSoft Inc. jumped more than 11 per cent after the health software company said it had signed its first multiple licences deal.

Sun to Integrate and Open Source Its Software Stack (CBR via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) - Like a mathematical calculation using Newton's Method, Sun Microsystems Inc has been weaving and bobbing around what ultimately would be its final stance on how it would package and sell software in this century and position itself against much larger competitors. Yesterday, Sun finally did what, in hindsight, it probably should have done years ago: integrate its entire software stack, open

Free Software Foundation Begins Process of Rewriting the GPL (ComputerWire via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) - The first update to the GNU General Public License for 15 years has begun with the launch of the process and guidelines by which it will be updated by the Free Software Foundation and the free/open source community at large.

Man pleads guilty to selling fake software (phillyburbs.com) - PITTSBURGH - A South Carolina man has pleaded guilty to selling more than one (m) million dollars of counterfeit copyrighted computer software through two Western Pennsylvanian companies.

Down to Business: Are Patents for Software and Business Processes Reasonable? (Network Computing) - To be granted a patent, inventions must be novel, useful, non-obvious and not based on "prior art." But these criteria are sometimes forgotten when it comes to software and business processes.

HK Bourse: Press Release from SinoCom Software -6 (Dow Jones News via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance) - SINOCOM SOFTWARE GROUP LIMITED (Incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability) (Stock Code: 299)

HP software head resigns (ZDNet) - Nora Denzel, senior vice president of HP's global software business, steps down for "personal reasons."

TransMedia Plans Enterprise Sharing and E-Commerce Software (InformationWeek) - New Glide hosted software could be latest threat to Microsoft's desktop productivity apps