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Top Red Hat IPO sees share price triple
News In regulatory filings, Red Hat said it represented approximately 56 percent of new license shipments of Linux-based server operating systems in 1998, according to International Data Corporation. Proceeds from the IPO will be used to provide working...
[August 11, 1999, 17:06]
Linux developers lose complacency
News The GNU Project, which has created a great deal of the software that makes Linux and Unix systems tick, calls its software "free" because the programs are distributed under the GNU Public License, which allows an application and source code to be...
[December 10, 2003, 8:20]
Friction behind AOL-Netscape-Sun deal
News In the summer of 1996, Netscape urged Sun to drop its Java license with Microsoft, according to another document cited by Leuba. That is not the story Netscape told the general public. Sun and Netscape were counting on the Java browser to boost...
[May 10, 1999, 8:48]
A Year Ago: Friction behind AOL-Netscape-Sun deal
News In the summer of 1996, Netscape urged Sun to drop its Java license with Microsoft, according to another document cited by Leuba. That is not the story Netscape told the general public. Sun and Netscape were counting on the Java browser to boost...
[May 10, 2000, 7:01]
US Report: Linux rebels strike back at world-beating Microsoft
News While the company claims to be licensing more liberally its operating-system source code to educational institutions, it is curtailing sharply its corporate source licenses, as evidenced by recent lawsuits brought by AT&T and Bristol Technology...
[November 6, 1998, 10:10]
Pressure mounts on BT over unmetered access
News BT has always maintained its hands are tied because its operating license prevents it from discriminating between voice and data calls. Oftel dismissed this as misinformation: "We would welcome BT offering innovative and differentiated tariffs and...
[October 21, 1999, 16:20]
Bristol betting all on Microsoft suit
News Microsoft offered to license parts of its most recent code for 25 to 400 percent more than the original contract, terms Bristol found unacceptable. Shortly after he started the company in 1991, Microsoft approached him, offering to license Windows...
[June 3, 1999, 8:44]
GPL: An update is on the horizon
News The heart of the operating system is governed by a licence called the GNU General Public License, or GPL, last updated in 1991 but now being modernised. In a dual-pronged competition, Sun has begun vying both with Linux and with the GPL by...
[February 14, 2005, 14:45]
VMware opens client virtualisation
Blog VMware's View Open Client is available through the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1. Commenting on the move, VMware's Jocelyn Goldfein, general manager of VMware's Desktop Business Unit said: "VMware feels strongly about industry...
[February 5, 2009, 14:49]
Open-source group seeks reversal of 'junk patent'
News Patents have proved to be a thorny issue in a recent partnership between Microsoft and Novell and in discussions over a new version of the General Public License. It sued a proprietary software rival, Desire2Learn, for infringement of the patent...
[December 1, 2006, 7:40]
Oracle, UnitedLinux deal to threaten Red Hat's dominance?
News We have a process in place and have been very careful to adhere to the appropriate policies for intellectual property and the GPL regulations," Hunter said, referring to the General Public License that governs Linux.
[March 14, 2003, 9:03]
Hardware safe from copy protection
News The vote will not prevent the 4C group from continuing to license and sell its CPRM technology, as well as a related antipiracy technique called Content Protection for Prerecorded Media (CPPM), which is already used for mediums including audio on...
[April 3, 2001, 10:53]
Free Software Foundation releases GPLv3
News After 18 months of sometimes inflamed debate, the Free Software Foundation on Friday released version 3 of the General Public License, a highly influential legal document that embodies the principles of the free- and open-source programming movement.
[July 2, 2007, 8:47]
Torvalds: Solaris could nudge Linux to GPLv3
News Linux leader Linus Torvalds has finally found something that could convince him that the forthcoming version 3 of the General Public License is worth adopting: open-source Solaris. If Sun really is going to release OpenSolaris under GPLv3, that may...
[June 13, 2007, 9:15]
Samba will move to GPLv3
News The new version 3 of the General Public License got a major endorsement on Monday from the project leaders of Samba, widely used open-source software for networked file sharing and printing. After internal consideration in the Samba Team, we have...
[July 10, 2007, 9:03]
SCO to attack validity of Linux licence
News SCO Group is planning to argue in its court battle against IBM that the General Public License (GPL) covering Linux and other open-source software is invalid, according to a report. SCO, owner of several key copyrights related to the Unix operating...
[August 15, 2003, 14:50]
A GNU dawn for open source
News The third version of the GNU General Public License finally came to fruition on Friday, promising a level of protection against software patents. It's been a stormy few months for the open-source community regarding patents, as Microsoft has been...
[July 2, 2007, 15:59]
GPL's DRM restrictions are revised
News The Free Software Foundation has revised provisions concerning the thorny area of digital rights management in a new draft of the General Public License released on Thursday. The approach in the second draft of GPL version 3 "only directly...
[July 28, 2006, 9:15]
Novell fellow leads Microsoft's Linux embrace
News About four months ago, Linux kernel developer and Novell fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman suggested to Microsoft that it release three drivers to be part of Linux under the GNU General Public License (GPL) terms that govern its code.
[July 23, 2009, 17:08]
Your Gnu needs you
Leader A simple statement of rights and obligations, the General Public License sets out with astonishing brevity and unmatched clarity one particular concept of community fairness. No government has approved it, it doesn't have a mighty corporation...
[January 19, 2006, 14:25]
