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GPLv3 Draft A Week Away
News At its foundation, the GPL requires several freedoms: A program's underlying source code may be seen, copied, modified and distributed. A major revamp of the GPL is scheduled for public release next week, a move that's expected to kick off a long...
[January 11, 2006, 15:35]
SCO Wants To Undermine Linux Foundation
News In its lawsuit against IBM, the SCO Group has begun a direct challenge to the General Public Licence -- the legal foundation for Linux, numerous other open-source programming projects and software that SCO still ships today.
[October 29, 2003, 7:50]
FSF Disputes Anti-GPLv3 Arguments
News The GPLv3 "simply says that if someone has a patent covering XYZ, and distributes a GPL-covered program to do XYZ, he can't sue the program's subsequent users, redistributors and improvers for doing XYZ with their own versions of that program...
[September 27, 2006, 9:40]
JBoss Offers Customers Legal Protection
News Formed under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation, Geronimo has set out to release a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server similar to JBoss' J2EE-based software. Earlier this month, JBoss Group lawyers sent the Apache...
[November 17, 2003, 8:37]
Sun Seeks Open-source Middle Ground
News A key reason why Sun has expressed reluctance to make Java open source is compatibility -- the guarantee that a Java program will run on any Java software foundation. The software can be covered by open-source licenses, while other mechanisms can...
[July 5, 2004, 14:45]
Rupert Goodwins: Free Software And Fundamentalism
News The Open Source Initiative, which exists to make open source software more acceptable to commercial enterprises, has a much more complex definition largely congruent with that of the Free Software Foundation.
[July 10, 2001, 16:49]
GPL Clamps Down On Patent Deals
News The Free Software Foundation (FSF) posted draft 3 of GPLv3 on its website, as expected, on Wednesday. Earlier this year, Torvalds panned GPL 3, saying the new version seeks to promote the FSF's philosophy rather than produce a pragmatic legal...
[March 29, 2007, 9:18]
GCC Gets An Overhaul
News The forthcoming GCC 4.0 includes a new foundation that will allow that translation to become more sophisticated, said Mark Mitchell, the GCC 4 release manager and "chief sourcerer" of a small company called CodeSourcery.
[March 15, 2005, 11:00]
GPL 3 May Tackle Web Loophole
News GPL 3, the next version of the free software licence, of which a draft is expected for release in early 2006, may close this loophole, according to GPL author and head of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Richard Stallman, in an interview with...
[September 27, 2005, 18:25]
Stallman: No Future In Proprietary Software
News Setting himself apart from the open-source movement, the founder of the Free Software Foundation doesn't believe proprietary software is OK under any circumstance. Along the way, it also won him a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
[December 5, 2002, 7:06]
MIT Frees Content Online
News The pilot program, which officially began in April 2001 and expires this year, was supported by two $5.5m (£3.3m) grants, one from the Hewlett Foundation and the other from the Mellon Foundation. The real hope is that we start seeing many open...
[September 30, 2003, 10:30]
EclipseCon To Get CRM Treats
News The Eclipse Foundation oversees work on Eclipse software, which is a modular program that allows developers to write applications with several or plug-ins, from different vendors. The Eclipse open source foundation is expected to announce new...
[March 20, 2006, 8:20]
Solaris Blueprints Still Open To Viewing
News Last week, though, Sun posted a note saying it planned to cancel the Foundation Source Program, believing that interest in it had waned. But the move triggered numerous requests to keep the program alive, spokesman Russ Castronovo said.
[July 3, 2001, 9:38]
Denial Of Service Attacks: Linux To The Rescue?
News The latest version of TripWire, 2.2.1, is the open-source product's foundation. The TripWire open-source program will be available in the third quarter. The company also is partnering with VA Linux Systems As a member of VA's new Linux Solutions...
[March 1, 2000, 9:07]
JBoss Downplays Open-source Code 'plagiarism'
News In the letter, which Jim Jagielski of the Apache Software Foundation posted online, JBoss lawyers alleged that code from the application server had made its way into Geronimo, an application server currently under development.
[November 12, 2003, 17:20]
MS Opens Source Code To Inspire Trust
News The component -- some thousands of lines of source code -- is the basic foundation of the security proposed in Microsoft's project and, as such, is the linchpin for the software giant's trusted-computing platform.
[June 26, 2002, 11:10]
Adobe Releases Flash Player 9 For Linux
News The Mozilla Foundation, which oversees the Firefox web browser, houses the open-source JavaScript project, called Tamarin. Although the Flash Player itself is proprietary software, Adobe has made one significant component an open-source program...
[January 18, 2007, 8:25]
McBride Reaches For Rhetoric In Linux Battle
News In the past 20 years, the Free Software Foundation and others in the open source software movement have set out to actively and intentionally undermine the US and European systems of copyrights and patents," McBride wrote.
[December 8, 2003, 13:45]
Apache Patch Covers HTTP Security Hole
News The Apache Software Foundation released on Wednesday an updated version of its market-leading Web server software, primarily to patch previously undisclosed security holes. The foundation said it would reveal details of the WebDAV vulnerability on...
[May 30, 2003, 10:13]
Sun Pioneer An Open-source Killjoy?
News Linux is covered by the General Public License (GPL), created by the Free Software Foundation, which lets anyone see and modify a program's source code as long as changes are published for free if the software is distributed.
[August 15, 2002, 7:47]
