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Free Software Foundation gives annual awards
News The awards were handed out by FSF founder and president Richard Stallman at the LibrePlanet conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 21-22 March. According to an FSF statement, Creative Commons's vice president, Mike Linksvayer, said upon...
[March 25, 2009, 11:52]
GPLv3 draft a week away
News FSF founder Richard Stallman released the current version 2 in 1991. The FSF plans several milestones in the revision process after the release of the public draft. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) will release and describe the first public draft...
[January 11, 2006, 15:35]
Bringing free software to the masses
News So when we visited the Foundation's headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts it was a surprise to discover a clean-cut, suited English man from Oxford, who was quite so different from FSF founder Richard Stallman with his impressive beard and baggy...
[April 13, 2006, 13:15]
Defending the world's freedoms
News Moglen's client is FSF founder and leader Richard Stallman, who seeks to propagate his philosophical and technical goals through the GPL. It also takes a stand against digital rights management technology — which the FSF dubs "digital restrictions...
[January 20, 2006, 15:10]
Free software's white knight
News You can run into bad propaganda about Stallman and the FSF, but we've never held up a business for a dime in unnecessary royalties. Initially, Moglen was spending about a fifth of his time doing legal work for the FSF, although this increased over...
[March 15, 2006, 12:20]
Eben Moglen: GPLv3 set for success
News Copyleft, a term coined by Free Software Foundation (FSF) founder Richard Stallman, refers to a key requirement of the GPL that an individual or organisation that changes and distributes software must make those changes public.
[May 24, 2007, 11:40]
GPL 3 to take hard line on DRM
News The new version of the most widely used open source licence takes a "highly aggressive" stance against the digital rights management software that's widely favoured in the entertainment industry, said Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free...
[January 19, 2006, 9:00]
GPL 3 draft 'by early 2006'
News Among the changes, according to GPL author and FSF president Richard Stallman, will be a better handling of software patents; clarifications with how GPL software may be used in some networked environments and on tightly controlled hardware; and...
[August 10, 2005, 9:35]
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]
OSDL patent project 'worse than nothing'
News An effort by the Open Source Development Laboratory (OSDL) to help developers defend themselves against software patents has come under fire from Free Software Foundation (FSF) founder Richard Stallman.
[September 19, 2006, 13:45]
RTLinux patent accused of violating GPL
News According to the FSF, whose founder Richard Stallman originally developed the GPL, FSMLabs isn't the only company violating the free-software licence. The FSF opposes software patents, and in addition believes that Yodaiken's patent licence...
[September 17, 2001, 17:07]
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]
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 FSF also accused FSMLabs of breaking the GPL...
[September 18, 2001, 15:06]
GPL 3 debate begins in earnest
News Over the last decade and a half, the GPL grew from an academic curiosity created by programmer and FSF founder Richard Stallman into a critical foundation of much of the software realm. The GPL 3 draft can be downloaded from the FSF's Web site...
[January 17, 2006, 8:50]
GPL 3 plans unveiled
News It will address new forms of use and current global requirements for commercial and non-commercial users," said Richard Stallman, the founder of the FSF, in a statement on GPL 3. The first draft of GPL 3 will be published at a conference that is...
[December 1, 2005, 11:10]
Next-to-last GPL 3 draft due this week
News The most recent draft wouldn't have prohibited releasing GPL software under such conditions, but FSF founder Richard Stallman said the group would find a way to prohibit it. The third discussion draft of GPL version 3 is scheduled for release at...
[March 27, 2007, 9:14]
GPL: An update is on the horizon
News Releasing a new licence in 2006 or even 2007 may seem a long way off, but it's not when compared with the 100-year planning horizon of GPL creator and FSF founder Richard Stallman, Moglen said. Stallman, will get from this process everything he wants.
[February 14, 2005, 14:45]
Torvalds rules out GPL3 for Linux
News The foundation believes that free software — that is, software that can be freely studied, copied, modified, reused, redistributed and shared by its users — is the only ethically satisfactory form of software development, as free and open...
[January 27, 2006, 8:20]
Linux lab urges GPL clarification
News FSF founder Richard Stallman has criticisms for OSDL, too. FSF attorney Eben Moglen met members of a committee of corporate powers on Tuesday and Wednesday in Chicago, said OSDL chief executive Stuart Cohen.
[September 21, 2006, 10:35]
Comment: Not Your Garden-Variety GNOME
News The climax of the campaign was a press conference where the Red Hat representative needed to frequently interject to keep FSF leader Richard Stallman and GNOME leader Miguel de Icaza from making fools of themselves.
[March 30, 1999, 14:25]
