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RSS license unixWasabi Certified BSD
White Paper Wasabi Certified BSD (WCB) is a certified, tested, and optimized version of the NetBSD operating system, offering the rich functionality of BSD Unix without Linux's troublesome GPL License and with the security of professional certification... [12 Mar 2008]
Network Printing - The Next Generation Berkeley Spooler: LPRng
White Paper LPRng began life as a PLP, a reimplementation of the Berkeley spooler free of the AT&T Unix license. In spite of the great fondness for the Berkeley spooler, one must admit that its age clearly shows - the stock Berkeley spooler has been in use... [25 Oct 2007]
Migrating Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Servers to Linux
White Paper A POSIX-compatible system, Linux is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), meaning that its source code is available free for consumption and manipulation. Linux is a fully functional, freely available, open-source operating system... [03 Apr 2007]
IBM hits server seller with patent suit
News In its complaint, IBM said PSI holds an IBM customer agreement that allows it to license Big Blue's operating system software and other software but only as an end-user. IBM also argues in its lawsuit that it has refused to license its patents and... [07 Dec 2006]
Microsoft snatches FAT patents win after all
News Under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's General Public License, Linux cannot be distributed if it contains patented technology that requires royalty payments. Microsoft indicated in the past it would license the file format. [11 Jan 2006]
Minority Report: Will Apple send in the clones?
Comment Apple has flatly denied that the imminent shift to Intel chips heralds a longer term strategy to license its operating system to PC manufacturers. While security experts claim a genuine OS X virus is a possibility, they also admit it's a very... [04 Nov 2005]
Microsoft and JBoss join hands for servers
News Most of JBoss' software is governed by the Lesser General Public License, or LGPL, created by the Free Software Foundation. Like its cousin, the General Public License, the LGPL permits anyone to see, modify and redistribute JBoss software and its... [28 Sep 2005]
SCO updates its Unix product and open source attitude
Part of that attack was levelled at the General Public License (GPL), which governs Linux and which SCO attorneys said violates the US Constitution as well as copyright, antitrust and export control laws. [24 Jun 2005]
Sun in two minds about Janus
Microsoft, which is critical of the General Public License (GPL) that covers open source Xen, has its own hypervisor work under way. Sun had touted Janus as a useful tool to help customers drop Linux in favour of Solaris, Sun's version of Unix. [16 Jun 2005]
Software Management for Linux and UNIX: The Most Reliable Way to Deploy, Update, and Manage Software for Desktops, Servers, and Mobile Devices
White Paper With automatic installation and self-healing, license management, hardware inventory, remote control, and web-based status reporting, ManageSoft is the most reliable way to deploy, update, and manage software for desktops, servers, and mobile... [15 Jun 2005]
Apple to unleash Tiger on 29 April
The desktop edition will cost £88.99 for a single-user license. A £139 license for a single residence, called the Mac OS X Tiger Family pack, will cover five users. The server edition will cost £349 for a 10-client license and £699 for an unlimited... [13 Apr 2005]
Red Hat predicts death of Solaris
The company also released information to the effect that it intends to show its good faith to the community by open sourcing the bulk of Solaris 10 under its Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL), which is understood to be directly... [16 Feb 2005]
"Software patents are a way of life"
News Also on Tuesday, Fink lambasted the practices of the Open Source Initiative, the group that approves prospective open source licences such as Sun's Community Development and Distribution License. Among them Richard Stallman, president of the Free... [16 Feb 2005]
HP tells developers to get used to patents
Also Tuesday, Fink lambasted the practices of the Open Source Initiative, the group that approves prospective open source licences such as Sun's Community Development and Distribution License. Among them are Richard Stallman, president of the Free... [16 Feb 2005]
GPL: An update is on the horizon
In a dual-pronged competition, Sun has begun vying both with Linux and with the GPL by releasing its own version of Unix, Solaris, as open source software under the Community Development and Distribution License. [14 Feb 2005]
