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The Linux Foundation's Open Compliance Program - Updated: ForgeRock Joins OIN
The Linux Foundation has announced a new compliance program to help companies that wish to use Linux and other Open Source software responsibly know how to comply with licenses. The Software Freedom Law Center is backing it, along with gpl-violations.org, the Open Invention Network, and OSI, as is pretty much every major electronics company, including Adobe, AMD, ARM Limited, Cisco Systems, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Novell, Palamida, Samsung, Sony Electronics, and more than 20 other companies and organizations -- even the Codeplex Foundation supports it. Here's the complete list.
There are some new tools, and they are open sourced too, and the program also includes "training, a standard format to report software licensing information, consulting and a self-assessment checklist that will help companies comply with open source licenses."
It's not hard to comply, certainly easier, I'd say, that with proprietary licenses, but anything new to you can feel harder, and this is designed help businesses easily and effectively incorporate open source tools into their products without friction.
I guess after this there really will be no excuse not to get it right. The press release has links to all the details.

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libuuid

LIBUUID(3)						     Library Functions Manual							LIBUUID(3)

NAME

       libuuid - DCE compatible Universally Unique Identifier library

SYNOPSIS

       #include <uuid/uuid.h>

       cc file.c -luuid

DESCRIPTION

       The libuuid library is used to generate unique identifiers for objects that may be accessible beyond the local system.  The Linux implemen-
       tation was created to uniquely identify ext2 filesystems created by a machine.  This library generates UUIDs compatible with those  created
       by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) utility uuidgen.

       The  UUIDs generated by this library can be reasonably expected to be unique within a system, and unique across all systems.  They could be
       used, for instance, to generate unique HTTP cookies across multiple web servers without communication between the servers, and without fear
       of a name clash.

CONFORMING TO

       OSF DCE 1.1

AUTHOR

       libuuid was written by Theodore Y. Ts'o for the ext2 filesystem utilties.

AVAILABILITY

       libuuid is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ <http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/>

COPYING

       libuuid is available under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL), version 2 (or at your discretion any later version).
       A copy of the LGPL should be included with this library in the file COPYING.  If not, write to
	      Free Software Foundation, Inc.
	      59 Temple Place
	      Suite 330
	      Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

       or visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#LGPL <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#LGPL>

SEE ALSO

       uuid_clear(3), uuid_compare(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_time(3), uuid_unparse(3)

E2fsprogs version 1.32						   November 2002							LIBUUID(3)