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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]
Industry Group Urges Government To Think Twice On Open Source
News In particular, Intellect recommended that the government drop the GNU General Public License (GPL), the licence upon which the GNU/Linux operating system is based, from its list of acceptable default licences for government-funded software, and...
[June 19, 2003, 13:52]
Open Source Comes Of Age
News The concept was first implemented in the GNU Emacs General Public License in 1985, and in 1989 in the GNU General Public License (generally know as the GPL), now the most widely used free/open source licence.
[March 13, 2006, 17:10]
Open-source Flaw Threatens Microsoft
News Unlike the GNU General Public License, the library doesn't require that a company release its own source code in return. Microsoft has never denied that it would use open-source software, just that its programmers are prohibited from using code...
[March 15, 2002, 8:57]
SCO To Attack Validity Of Linux Licence
Talkback GNU General Public License homepage http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html Enforcing the GNU GPL Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html Findlaw copy of Caldera System Inc copy of GPL http://contracts...
[August 15, 2003, 15:24]
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. Palmer said that some developers may decide to only license their...
[March 24, 2005, 17:50]
Opponents Attack SCO's GPL 'nonsense'
News Last week, SCO attorney Mark Heise revealed in comments to The Wall Street Journal that the company is planning to argue in court that the GNU General Public License (GPL), which covers Linux and related software, is invalid.
[August 19, 2003, 12:25]
Companies Accused Of Violating The GPL
News A number of major IT vendors have been accused of misusing software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Harald Welte, a Linux kernel developer who runs gpl-violations.org, personally handed over warning letters to 13 technology...
[March 16, 2005, 15:45]
JavaFX: Sun's Late Start In RIA Race
White Papers Sun crossed the open source Java finish line when it announced it was releasing the remaining bits of the Java SE (Standard Edition) Development Kit under version 2 of the GNU General Public License at the 2007 JavaOne Conference in May 2005.
[July 10, 2007, 0:00]
How To Use Tons Of Powerful, Free Software - Fast
White Papers In the case of software released under the terms of popular free software licenses like the GNU General Public license, one is free to use the software in any way, including giving it away, improving it, and modifying it or selling it on a street...
[March 9, 2006, 23:00]
File Search (Java)
Downloads This program has been released under the GNU General Public License. FileSearch is a Java 1.4 application to find files that contain (or don't contain) a given string. The string may be in plain text or it may be a Java regular expression.
[March 5, 2008, 7:31]
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]
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]
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]
Open-source Advocates Answer Microsoft
News In particular it defends the GNU General Public License, calling it "the computer equivalent of share and share alike. Calling Microsoft's way of doing business a "deliberately incompatible strategy," 10 luminaries from the open-source movement...
[May 16, 2001, 12:05]
Open-source Leaders Fire New Salvo At Microsoft
News In particular it defends the GNU General Public License, calling it "the computer equivalent of share and share alike. Calling Microsoft's way of doing business a "deliberately incompatible strategy," ten luminaries from the open-source movement...
[May 17, 2001, 8:22]
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]
Famed Open-source Compiler Gets A Face Lift
News Now, though, because GCC accepts programs written in many other languages as well, GCC stands for GNU Compiler Collection. Indeed, the Linux kernel that stepped in to become the heart of the GNU operating system project is released under the GPL.
[June 20, 2001, 9:32]
Stallman Touts GPLv3 Provisions
News Microsoft wants to use its thousands of patents to make GNU/Linux users pay Microsoft for the privilege, and made this deal to try to get that. The right to remove digital rights management controls and patent protection for free and open-source...
[June 4, 2007, 10:25]
