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French fry up their own GPL
News Three French public agencies released details of a new software licence last week that they say is similar to the General Public License (GPL) but tailored for the market in France. To date, the majority of French free software are diffused under...
[July 13, 2004, 15:05]
Sun may choose GPL for Solaris
News Sun is considering releasing its Solaris operating system under the General Public License, executives said on Monday, raising the possibility of cross-pollination with Linux. However, Sun this week chose the General Public License (GPL) for its...
[November 15, 2006, 9:21]
Linux developers debate GPL 3 support
News Leading Linux developers are divided on whether the open source operating system should use the next version of the GNU General Public License. What finally happens is going to depend almost entirely on whether the GPL v3 is a sane license or not...
[January 23, 2006, 13:40]
Vexed
Downloads Released the game and its source code in 1999 under the GNU General Public License. Also, Steve Haynal has provided an additional 60 levels, also released under the GNU General Public License. Now that I've got a color Palm 505, I wanted to...
[February 23, 2007, 7:00]
Linux lab urges GPL clarification
News The Free Software Foundation urgently needs to explain how software governed by the current General Public License will interact with that governed by a successor now under development, the leader of the Open Source Development Labs said Wednesday.
[September 21, 2006, 10:35]
MySQL steers clear of GPLv3
News Open-source database company MySQL has decided to stick to the current General Public License rather than move to an upcoming revision, pending broader industry acceptance. MySQL, one of the most successful commercial ventures to use the open...
[January 5, 2007, 8:00]
Linux legal team sues over GPL violations
News The Software Freedom Law Center said it has filed suit against two companies for allegedly violating the General Public License, which covers usage of Linux and thousands of other free and open-source products.
[November 21, 2007, 10:34]
SCO to attack validity of Linux licence
Talkback GNU General Public License homepage http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html There are many examples of public licenses for copyrighted material; most of them simply add terms such as requiring identification of the source of the material; forbidding...
[August 15, 2003, 15:24]
GPLv3 may not bind Microsoft
News Microsoft should be able to extricate itself from the implications of the General Public License version 3, according to a leading Australian intellectual property lawyer. To combat this strategy, the Free Software Foundation (FSF), authors of the...
[July 25, 2007, 9:40]
Stallman touts GPLv3 provisions
News The right to remove digital rights management controls and patent protection for free and open-source software users is an important provision in the General Public License version 3, says the Free Software Foundation.
[June 4, 2007, 10:25]
Industry group urges government to think twice on open source
News A UK IT industry body backed by Microsoft, IBM, Intel, BAE Systems and other high-tech heavyweights has urged the UK government to show restraint in its use of open-source software, particularly software covered by the General Public License.
[June 19, 2003, 13:52]
Open-source advocates answer Microsoft
News Calling Microsoft's way of doing business a "deliberately incompatible strategy," 10 luminaries from the open-source movement lashed back at the software giant on Tuesday for its recent criticism of the centrepiece of the free-software movement...
[May 16, 2001, 12:05]
Open-source leaders fire new salvo at Microsoft
News Calling Microsoft's way of doing business a "deliberately incompatible strategy," ten luminaries from the open-source movement lashed back at the software giant on Tuesday for its recent criticism of the centerpiece of the free-software movement...
[May 17, 2001, 8:22]
Interview: Open-source advocate Eben Moglen
News However, following reports that he has effectively stepped down from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), it seemed strange that Moglen was at the summit speaking about the GNU General Public License (GPL).
[May 11, 2007, 15:15]
Microsoft experiments with open source
News The CPL is considered somewhat more flexible than the GNU General Public License, which Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has criticised in the past for its inability to jibe with proprietary software development.
[April 6, 2004, 17:10]
SCO sets up Linux-licence shop
Talkback The SCO Greop has already effectively granted all downstream users of the right to use the Linux kernel under the terms of the Gnu General Public License (GPL). The SCO Group is pulling a scam selling unnecessary licenses under terms that directly...
[February 24, 2004, 8:05]
IBM launches Linux counterattack on SCO
News SCO itself has distributed Linux under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which grants a free copyright licence and requires that users be granted the right to freely redistribute the code free of claims," Bob Samson, vice president of IBM's...
[July 28, 2003, 9:06]
Microsoft to license SCO Group Unix rights
News A few months later, in an interview with CNET News.com, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates sought to warn corporate users about the GNU General Public License, which Linux is distributed under. According to a statement from Microsoft, the company will...
[May 19, 2003, 7:33]
Openmoko ships Neo FreeRunner Linux phone
News The Openmoko platform is open-sourced under the General Public License (GPL) and Lesser General Public License (LGPL), and the stack includes a full X server. Openmoko's Neo FreeRunner open-source handset has finally shipped to distributors...
[June 26, 2008, 12:21]
MySQL sheds light on open-source rift
News Previously, though, the libraries were covered by the Lesser General Public License (LGPL). In MySQL's case, the Swedish company uses the General Public License (GPL) to cover its database software and the supporting libraries that other programs...
[March 15, 2004, 7:35]
