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RTLinux patent accused of violating GPL
News The Free Software Foundation has condemned FSMLabs, which developed the embedded operating system RTLinux, for using software patents that it says violate a central pillar of the Linux world -- the GNU Public Licence (GPL).
[September 17, 2001, 17:07]
Opponents attack SCO's GPL 'nonsense'
News In a response published on Monday, Eben Moglen, a Columbia law professor and the attorney for the Free Software Foundation, which enforces the GPL, admitted that success by SCO would destroy the legal foundation for the GPL.
[August 19, 2003, 12:25]
GPL 3 may contain patent retaliation clause
News The next version of the GPL may contain a clause to penalise companies that use software patents against free software. GPL version 3, a draft of which will be released in January 2006, may contain a patent retaliation clause, Georg Greve, the...
[September 6, 2005, 18:10]
FSF disputes anti-GPLv3 arguments
News The Free Software Foundation is seeking to counter recent claims of prominent Linux programmers who have argued vehemently against new features in an update of the widely used General Public License (GPL).
[September 27, 2006, 9:40]
Schwartz swipes at the GPL
News The GPL governs Linux and countless other projects in the free and open source software arena. Representatives of the Free Software Foundation, which oversees the GPL, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
[April 6, 2005, 13:50]
GPL's DRM restrictions are revised
News The GPL, the legal foundation of much of the open source and free software movements, is undergoing a years-long modernisation process. The approach in the second draft of GPL version 3 "only directly restricts DRM in the special case in which it...
[July 28, 2006, 9:15]
Stallman takes Gates to task over GPL attacks
News Attacks by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on the GNU General Public License (GPL), under which a lot of open source and free software is distributed, have been driven by a fear that the GPL creates a domain of software that Microsoft cannot...
[May 1, 2002, 11:07]
GPL 'minimises risks of open source'
News Eben Moglen, a prominent open source software lawyer, argued that legal risks from using free and open source software have been minimised by the GPL. He said that many of the potential risks to users of free and open source software are misplaced...
[November 3, 2005, 8:55]
GPL 3 may tackle Web loophole
News The next version of the GPL may tackle the issue of Web companies using free software in commercial Web-based applications but are not distributing the source code. GPL 3, the next version of the free software licence, of which a draft is expected...
[September 27, 2005, 18:25]
GPL 3 plans unveiled
News The Free Software Foundation has revealed the timeline for the creation of the next version of the GPL, the most widely used free software license. The current GPL, version 2, is being updated to take into account the changes in the software...
[December 1, 2005, 11:10]
GPL 3 debate begins in earnest
News The Free Software Foundation on Monday released the first public discussion draft of the GPL version three, shedding light on proposed reforms to the document's patent and digital rights management provisions.
[January 17, 2006, 8:50]
BT proves itself open to correction
Leader And unlike proprietary software, because the GPL and the code it protects are unambiguously public, such theft is easy to spot and impossible to deny. To its mild embarrassment, the British telco forgot to read part two of the GPL.
[January 24, 2007, 15:53]
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. For more, click here.of the 1990s, others in the free software world were criticising GPL...
[January 20, 2006, 15:10]
Open-source legal body sues over GPL violation
News Ravicher co-founded the SFLC along with one of the biggest legal guns in the free and open-source software arena — Eben Moglen, the Columbia Law School professor who for years represented GPL creator the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and who also...
[October 1, 2007, 15:08]
GPLv3 draft a week away
News Modifications to make the GPL more compatible with other free software or open source software licences. A provision to protect GPL software projects against "pirates armed with patents. Probably most lawyers who have an active practice in the...
[January 11, 2006, 15:35]
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. Over the last few weeks, free software developers from various projects...
[March 24, 2005, 17:50]
Stallman touts GPLv3 provisions
News In a statement last week, Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which authored the General Public License (GPL), said GPLv3 will allow users to remove digital rights management (DRM) controls in appliances that include...
[June 4, 2007, 10:25]
Samba: TomTom suit tries to undermine GPL
News You can't use GPL software and do patent cross-licensing deals with Microsoft (or anyone, for that matter) that cover the GPL software," Allison wrote in an email interview on Friday. We put our software out there for everyone to use under the...
[March 10, 2009, 11:46]
Open-source Alfresco adopts the GPL
News Alfresco's licence comes at an interesting time, when the Free Software Foundation is working on version 3 of the GPL. However, the company did add to the GPL a "FLOSS exception" provision that permits the software to be embedded in other FLOSS...
[February 23, 2007, 9:22]
SCO unveils code 'evidence'
Talkback GPL and LGPL from the Free Software Foundation are popularly used with Linux.however much UNIX code is licensed via a modified BSD style license. Like GPL, a BSD style license allows any company to use the source code for commercial and/or free...
[October 1, 2003, 19:11]
