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Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license

The Verge

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon. Its only product so far is a social network called Truth Social that appears strongly to be forked from Mastodon.

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Music-licensing startup Audiosocket hits play on effort to get more digital creators using its products

GeekWire

Founded in 2009, Audiosocket is seeing growth of its music licensing software products used by social media creators, movie production studios, and others. On TikTok, the video-sharing social giant, Audiosocket’s artists are trending, amassing more than 300 million views this year.

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Unity’s Marc Whitten shares apology note following backlash to controversial licensing policies

GeekWire

(LinkedIn Photo) After more than a week of controversy, Unity Technologies posted an apology letter to its community and promised to undo or rollback many of the changes it had planned to make to the licensing agreements for its game engine Unity. Unity, which has an office in Bellevue, Wash., revenue share. “We ”

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Wizards of the Coast reverses stance on controversial licensing revision following outcry

GeekWire

The policy shift concerns the Open Game License (OGL), a public copyright notice that Wizards of the Coast, headquartered in Renton, Wash., 12, resulted in several social media campaigns to boycott playing D&D in favor of other RPGs, and to send a message to Wizards by canceling subscriptions to its digital storefront D&D Beyond.

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Facebook offered to license its network and code to avoid antitrust action

The Verge

In the wake of the groundbreaking Federal Trade Commission lawsuit against Facebook, The Washington Post is reporting new details of the company’s negotiations with regulators in the run-up to the case, including an unusual offer to license its code and network to competitors.

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Revolutionizing Education: The Future of Curriculum Development

Kitaboo

The very first step to achieving such educational goals is to modify the curriculum, develop the content, incorporate technology, and involve communities and networks. Key Objectives of Curriculum Development II. Here are some of the key features of curriculum development : 1. Table of Contents I.

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Here’s why so many video game developers are suddenly abandoning the Unity engine

GeekWire

Unity image) In the wake of a controversial policy change by game engine developer Unity , dozens of small independent video game studios have announced they’ll abandon the engine and/or have called upon Unity to reverse course. 1, 2024, it would change the terms by which it licenses its engine. As an example, Vancouver, B.C.’s