In the UK the Queen approved the agreement on Thursday.
By contrast, GPLv3 and AGPLv3 each include clauses (in section 13 of each license) that together achieve a form of mutual compatibility for the two licenses. These clauses explicitly allow the “conveying” of a work formed by linking code licensed under the one license against code licensed under the other license,[3] despite the licenses otherwise not allowing relicensing under the terms of each other.[4] In this way, the copyleft of each license is relaxed to allow distributing such combinations.[4] This is why, by Black Duck’s own analysis of over two million open source projects, permissive licenses power over 50% of all open source projects (and even more if we recognize that GPL 2.0 licensing effectively acts like a permissive license in cloud computing contexts): Reading Black Duck Software’s newest paean to the Affero General Public License (AGPL) (“The Quietly Accelerating Adoption of the AGPL”), one could
Friday, May 7, 2021
SAMR issues series of fines for failure to pre-file notice of market concentration
The State Administration for Market Regulation’s (SAMR) recent enforcement actions have focused on two aspects of antitrust law. The first is the PRC Anti-monopoly Law’s (AML) requirement that business operators must first submit a filing to SAMR prior to implementing a concentration that exceeds relevant market thresholds. On April 28, 2021, SAMR issued administrative fines against several companies for failing to submit the necessary filings prior to engaging in a notifiable business concentration. This is in addition to SAMR penalizing dozens of companies the previous month for the same infraction. The maximum penalty currently allowed for unreported business concentrations is 500,000 RMB (approx. 77,000 USD). SAMR’s actions indicate a renewed emphasis on pre-concentration filing compliance.
U.S. oil major Chevron (NYSE: CVX) last month signed a liquefied natural gas (LNG)
supply and purchase agreement with Hokkaido Gas for a half million tons of LNG from its global portfolio spread over a period of five years, starting from April 2022.
Chevron said its new partnership will broaden its customer base in Japan, a market that is foundational to its overall LNG business.
The new deal typifies how LNG markets in the Asia-Pacific region, home to around two-thirds of global LNG demand, are still undergoing systematic changes amid a prolonged supply overhang of the fuel.
Buyers in the region have gained considerable contractual leverage over producers in the last few years. Instead of inking long-term 15- and even 20-year restrictive supply deals, more buyers are signing shorter-term deals, while also buying more cargoes on the spot market. This trend will continue as increasing numbers of long-term LNG contracts begin to expire, especially in Japan, by mid-decade.
Now, on a single corner in a working-class suburb of Osaka, there are two.
The unusual pairing is the latest manifestation of a grudge match between one of Japan’s most powerful companies and, arguably, one of its most stubborn men.
Mitoshi Matsumoto, a franchisee, ran one of the two 7-Elevens until the chain revoked his contract in 2019 after he dared to shorten his operating hours. For more than a year, his store has sat empty as he and 7-Eleven have battled in court over control of the shop. Fed up and with no end in sight, the company decided on a stopgap: It built a second shop in what used to be Matsumoto’s parking lot.
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