What is GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL)? The GNU General Public License, often shortened to GNU GPL (or simply GPL), lists terms and conditions for the copying, modification and ...

Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development software, made a decision filled with implications ...

I started to consider the reasons why open source vendors select the GPL after ESR wrote: The GPL may be a community-building signaling device, but it is also a confession of fear and weakness. To ...

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

A California Superior Court appears to have recently answered a longstanding question in the open-source software community and in providing that answer, gave television manufacturer Vizio clarity.

I’ve had GPL and licensing review processes in development organizations I’ve managed, and that was done with only a tiny fraction of the resources Microsoft has to make sure their software is in ...

Reuse is not a matter for debate with proprietary software. When developers produce software in-house, they create a piece of intellectual property that is guarded through the restrictions of a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The planned upgrade to the GNU General Public License (GPL) will be ready by 2007, according to an industry official involved with the project. Presenting at the LinuxWorld conference ...

We can admit it, marketing is not our strong suit. Our strength is writing the kind of articles that developers, administrators, and free-software supporters depend on to know what is going on in the ...

Following years of consultation with academic institutions, industry and open-source developers, the Free Software Foundation is readying a proposal for GPL 3 that will attempt to eliminate the small ...

The planned upgrade to the GNU General Public License (GPL) will be ready by 2007, according to an industry official involved with the project. Presenting at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco ...