Since the main point of the Free Software Foundation's new GPL3 (General Public License 3) is to prevent "TiVo-isation," this surely does not come as a surprise. However, Information Week reports that ...

At a JavaOne Conference panel, Free Software Foundation (FSF) executive director Peter Brown said that he thinks the General Public License version 3 (GPL3) draft will still be modified to establish ...

A little more than a week ago, in a blog entry where I wrote about how digital restrictions management (DRM) technologies (the better acronym is C.R. The DRM provisions are designed to go after ...

In the run-up to the release of GPL3, Eben Moglen of the Free Software Foundation sought to calm anyone concerned by noting that the changes would be very small – so small, in fact, that everyone ...

Microsoft is not selling SUSE Linux. The company is selling vouchers for Novell service agreements. The entire voucher system was pretty obviously devised to prevent Microsoft from becoming party to ...

It seems that if you give someone an executable of a GPL program, the text requires you to provide source, and the license says the source includes the build script you used to produce that executable ...