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Getting help with open source software

...the best things about open source, particularly those that adhere to the GNU General Public License (GPL) is that the code must be made available... Read more

31 May, 2011
VirtualBox 4.1.16

VirtualBox 4.1.16

...is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). VirtualBox runs on Mac OS X, Windows and... Read more

22 May, 2012
DVDStyler 2.2

DVDStyler 2.2

...a cross platform DVD Authoring System. It is free software distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL). Features: you can drag and drop MPEG files... Read more

13 May, 2012
Blender 2.63a

Blender 2.63a

...and playback. It is available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. Its animations systems support a variety of techniques and... Read more

10 May, 2012
ClamWin Antivirus 0.97.4

ClamWin Antivirus 0.97.4

...a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus engine. ClamWin uses the GNU General Public License. ClamWin Antivirus comes with an installer and open source... Read more

3 April, 2012
R for Mac OS X 2.15.0

R for Mac OS X 2.15.0

...as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License in source code form. It compiles and runs out... Read more

31 March, 2012

Success is in the future of open source software

...software organized. We should also not forget that the creator of the GNU General Public License is Richard Stallman and was the first to come... Read more

28 March, 2012
FlightGear 2.6.0

FlightGear 2.6.0

...the entire project is available from a CVS repository and licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL). FlightGear 1.0 was released in December 2007... Read more

18 February, 2012

Mozilla pushes out MPL 2.0

...revision has also been approved by the Free Software Foundation for GPL (GNU General Public License) compatibility and the Open Source Initiative as meeting free... Read more

4 January, 2012 by Ben Woods
Font Rename (Java) 4.0

Font Rename (Java) 4.0

...included in the ZIP file. This program has been released under the GNU General Public License Read more

12 October, 2011
Hex File Editor (Java) 2.0

Hex File Editor (Java) 2.0

...included in the ZIP file. This program has been released under the GNU General Public License Read more

12 October, 2011

What "free" means with Open Source software

...goals that Richard Stallman has aimed to achieve since he formed the GNU General Public License in 1989. He started the GNU operating system which... Read more

3 August, 2011
Stockfish Chess 2.4

Stockfish Chess 2.4

...piece sets and seven color schemes.* Complete source code available under the GNU General Public License Read more

22 July, 2011

Lawyer: Android may be open to Linux copyright issues

...virtual machine — was built around the Linux kernel under the open-source GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). According to Edward Naughton, an intellectual... Read more

18 March, 2011 by Ben Woods

Microsoft to allow Eclipse, Mozilla licences for WP7 apps

...trying to divide and rule". "It is conspicuous that the default GPL [GNU General Public License] family of licences is not in there," Gerloff told... Read more

9 March, 2011 by David Meyer

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