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SCO to attack validity of Linux licence
Talkback Enforcing the GNU GPL GNU General Public License homepage http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html 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, you say?
Blog Comment Correct, the GNU GPL is "Free as in Freedom. So yes, you can share the code if you wish, as long as you follow the rules, for example distributing under the GNU GPL, not removing copyright information, indicating if you have changed files, and so...
[October 16, 2009, 20:18]
Free, you say?
Blog Comment Correct, the GNU GPL is "Free as in Freedom. So yes, you can share the code if you wish, as long as you follow the rules, for example distributing under the GNU GPL, not removing copyright information, indicating if you have changed files, and so...
[October 16, 2009, 20:08]
Torvalds criticises GPL revisions
Talkback GNU GPL Is About The Four Freedoms: The GNU GPL isn't just about the open source process and sharing source code, although sharing code is an integral part of it. The GNU GPL is, and always has been since it's beginnings, about protecting the four...
[July 31, 2006, 20:47]
OpenArena
Downloads OpenArena is a content project based on the GNU GPL Quake III Arena source code that uses the ioquake3 engine and runs as a stand-alone game for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms. The content is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
[November 1, 2008, 15:27]
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]
Corel Linux: Out of the chute with a bang
News Some open source and Linux advocates are outraged that Corel's beta Linux distribution agreement violates the GNU Public License (GPL) in several respects. A Corel spokesperson says, "As we've stated on previous occasions, Corel has every intention...
[September 22, 1999, 12:11]
Wishing won't make Linux split, Microsoft
Talkback Since most GNU/Linux software is realeased under the GPL, any valuable contribution made by anybodyis available to all. Microsoft seems to have forgotten that the GPL precludes the sort of fragmentation that destroyed the proprietary Unix variants.
[February 2, 2005, 1:09]
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]
Linux developer resolves GPL dispute
News Yesterday, the FSF -- founded by Richard Stallman, who also developed the GNU Public Licence (GPL) -- condemned FSMLabs for its patent on elements of RTLinux, which it said could not be patented. The GPL governs the Linux kernel used in RTLinux, as...
[September 18, 2001, 15:06]
Microsoft's open source arguments are arrogant, says IBM
News In recent weeks, Microsoft executives have launched an all-out propaganda war against open source software, based on the GNU Public Licence (GPL). Jollans also disagrees with Microsoft's argument that the GPL and intellectual property are...
[July 5, 2001, 12:37]
LBackup
Downloads Licensed under the GNU GPL. LBackup is licensed under the GNU GPL. LBackup is a simple backup system aimed at systems administrators who require reliable backups with minimum fuss. LBackup is configured with configuration files and the backup is...
[September 14, 2009, 15:16]
GPL: An update is on the horizon
News The heart of the operating system is governed by a licence called the GNU General Public License, or GPL, last updated in 1991 but now being modernised. When Stallman launched his Gnu's Not Unix (GNU) effort to clone Unix in the 1980s, he crafted...
[February 14, 2005, 14:45]
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]
Stallman: Love is not free
News What's important to the FSF is that software should not be bound up in proprietary licences -- the GNU Public Licence (GPL) and others require that any alterations to source code must be made available to other developers.
[July 10, 2001, 13:17]
Microsoft, Red Hat argue open source
News Bradley Kuhn, vice president of the Free Software Foundation, said, "Microsoft has stated that the GNU GPL is an un-American cancer" and challenged Mundie to debate the issue at a coming Free Software meeting in October.
[July 27, 2001, 10:45]
SCO vs the Linux world…What's a Linux user to do?
Talkback In fact, SCO could make no claims on LINUX because the GNU GPL forbids any IP that is non-GNU GPL and thus SCO could have no claim because any SCO IP must be cleared out of it in order for LINUX, governed by the GNU GPL, to be LINUX.
[August 14, 2003, 3:50]
Mandrake takes UnitedLinux to task
News The operating system is based on the open-source GNU General Public Licence (GPL), which requires that the software be freely available, and can be modified and redistributed, as long as the redistributed versions are also covered by the GPL.
[July 3, 2002, 13:50]
GPL 3 draft 'by early 2006'
News Since then, in particular with the commercialisation of GNU/Linux and other open source projects, the GPL has become central to the computing infrastructure of countless businesses. The first draft of the next version of the GPL should be released...
[August 10, 2005, 9:35]
Maybe They Want Choice! Maybe They Don't Want Ubuntu!
Talkback The community has been warned about the "market share, effective ownership and control vulnerability" of the GPL and ways to avoid it for years. The GPL can only guarantee actual ownership. He has designs on gaining effective ownership and control...
[August 1, 2007, 10:41]
