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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]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
News The Free Software Foundation has denied there is a risk that free software projects could fork when the next version of the GNU General Public License (GPL) becomes available. But Eben Moglen, the general counsel for Free Software Foundation, said...
[March 24, 2005, 17:50]
Free Software Foundation gives annual awards
News The Creative Commons organisation and the Dutch security programmer Wietse Venema have become winners of the Free Software Foundation's annual awards. According to an FSF statement, Creative Commons's vice president, Mike Linksvayer, said upon...
[March 25, 2009, 11:52]
Photos: Inside the Free Software Foundation
News Peter Brown, the executive director of the Free Software Foundation, in his office at the organisation's headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. On the walls of his office are copies of the Free Software Foundation's artwork, including the famous...
[April 13, 2006, 16:10]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Talkback So the best thig for the software developers is to license to only to a specific (version of) license. There is a problem with the GPL. What if the next versions of GPL will allow incorporating code into proprietary programs?
[March 25, 2005, 9:53]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Talkback Stallman has made it know that he feels all software should be "free as in freedom". I think you would be more likely to see problems come about because the new license would go to even greater (i.e.stricter) lengths to prevent proprietary software...
[March 25, 2005, 17:06]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Talkback "No chance in hell, that this i going to happen" Linus (used to? thinks it may happen. That's why the kernel is explicitly under v2, not the "and later" bits.
[March 25, 2005, 12:20]
Free Software Foundation denies GPLv3 forking risk
Talkback "What if the next versions of GPL will allow incorporating code into proprietary programs? No chance in hell, that this i going to happen. That will never be the job of the GPL, thats the job of the BSD/MIT/APACHE/X11 Licenses.
[March 25, 2005, 10:17]
Open source software may be free, but there's still money involved
Blog The Linux Foundation, the non-profit body formed in 2007, has analysed the code commited to the kernel over the past four years to see which developers have contributed how much code, who they're sponsored by and who approves how much code they...
[August 21, 2009, 17:17]
European Free Software Foundation created
News A European "sister organisation" to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was announced Friday by programmers from Germany to cater for the complexity and diversity of the international open source community.
[November 28, 2000, 8:40]
Free software 'not anti-capitalist'
News Moglen, who is the Free Software Foundation's legal counsel, also argued that intellectual-property laws are not a central tenet of capitalism. Free software lawyer Eben Moglen has denied that free software is incompatible with capitalism, a claim...
[March 15, 2006, 16:10]
Free software advocates go to war with Microsoft
News The best known of these licences is the General Public License (GPL), created by Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman, which allows anyone to view and reuse code so long as it is republished under the same licence agreement.
[May 3, 2001, 12:54]
Open source versus free software debate rages
News Love was defending himself and the open source movement against reproaches by Richard Stallman, the chairman of the Free Software Foundation. But," said Love, "before they could become that successful, they had to develop proprietary software.
[June 25, 2001, 15:05]
Free Software servers breached
News The Free Software Foundation, the GNU project's overseer, has issued lists of hashes -- numbers generated by the source code of software known not to have been compromised -- which can be used to verify downloaded code.
[August 14, 2003, 11:50]
Microsoft: Africa doesn't need free software
News There are a number of organisations that run open source software training projects across the continent, including SchoolNet Namibia, The Shuttleworth Foundation and the East African Centre for Open Source Software.
[October 17, 2005, 16:30]
Samba will move to GPLv3
News The Free Software Foundation released GPLv3 in June, bringing significant changes regarding patents, compatibility with some other licences, and the use of GPL software in consumer devices, such as personal video recorders.
[July 10, 2007, 9:03]
European open source innovation ahead
News Europe can look forward to a surge in the number of fledgling Linux companies that will exert a strong influence in the open source software scene, predicts a representative of the Free Software Foundation.
[May 2, 2000, 15:30]
Stallman to rebut Microsoft's Mundie
News Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and lead creator of the GNU family of free software tools, will rebut Craig Mundie, senior vice president at Microsoft, before the Stern School of Business at New York University today.
[May 29, 2001, 16:48]
GPLv3 release set for Friday
News The Free Software Foundation is set to release the General Public License version 3 on Friday, more than three months after the initial 15 March deadline. Peter T Brown, executive director Free Software Foundation, announced the launch date in an...
[June 28, 2007, 14:45]
Defending the world's freedoms
News The Columbia Law School professor and attorney representing the Free Software Foundation has the new role of explaining and overseeing the update to the GPL. That document, being revised for the first time in 15 years, is not only the embodiment of...
[January 20, 2006, 15:10]
