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News Stallman is president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and wrote the most widely used open-source licence, GPL, now in version 3. Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of open-source software with... [10 Jun 2008]
Skype drops open-source appeal
News The licence requires vendors to ship source code with any open-source product but Skype's WSKP100 phone was sold without giving users access to the source code, according to a case brought by gpl-violations.org, a group policing open-source... [12 May 2008]
Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year
News Mark Taylor, the founder of the Open Source Consortium, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday it was "great that Java is at some point in the future going to be fully open source and GPL", but added that the announcement was a... [28 Apr 2008]
Microsoft strikes back at open source critics
News Another problem with the Open Specification Promise (OSP), according to the SLFC, is that it is not consistent with the General Public License (GPL), which requires any derived works also be open. Knowlton wrote: "As far as we are concerned we are... [18 Mar 2008]
Lawyer: Microsoft can evade GPL 3
News Microsoft should be able to extricate itself from the implications of the new GPL 3, according to a leading Australian intellectual property lawyer. The question is, do Microsoft's actions regarding the [support certificates] fall within the... [26 Jul 2007]
Sun's Solaris to get that Linux feeling?
News However, Schwartz has talked frequently of the possibility of releasing Solaris under the GPL that governs Linux, which - if both operating systems use the same version of the GPL - would theoretically permit code sharing. [10 May 2007]
Has BT violated the GPL?
News BT is in dispute with some in the open source community over its use of GPL-licensed code in its Home Hub router. BT was recently accused of violating the GPL through its use of open source software within the Home Hub. [29 Jan 2007]
Second Life software goes open source
News Linden Lab released the viewer software under the General Public Licence (GPL), the licence that governs the Linux kernel, Samba file server software, the MySQL database and thousands of other projects. [09 Jan 2007]
MySQL puts off automatic move to GPL 3
News Open source database company MySQL has decided to stick to the current General Public Licence (GPL) rather than move to an upcoming revision, pending broader industry acceptance. MySQL, one of the most successful commercial ventures to use the open... [05 Jan 2007]
Trolltech simplifies mobile Linux
News Greensuite will not be distributed for free under the GPL (General Public License), as it will include proprietary code from Trolltech's partners - such as the Opera browser and Zi input software. Trolltech expects to ship the Greensuite from the... [30 Nov 2006]
Sun to offer Java under Linux-friendly licence
News The nature of the GPL is that additions to software available under the GPL must also use the licence. So a developer who writes an application using the open source Java software could be obliged by the GPL to also release that newly created... [13 Nov 2006]
Microsoft to pay Novell $308m for Suse deal
News Novell said its agreement with Microsoft doesn't violate the General Public Licence (GPL) - the licence that governs the Linux kernel. Microsoft is to pay Novell a net amount of $308m to market and distribute its competitor's product. [08 Nov 2006]
Anti-DRM day to debut next month
News The issue has also caused vigorous debate in the run-up to the third version of the General Public License (GPL), the document - currently being revised by the FSF - which underpins much of the open source movement. [04 Sep 2006]
Webcasting ejected from broadcasting treaty
News Doctorow said in his blog: "This [treaty] would allow a webcaster (anyone who sends you audiovisual material over the internet) to have a 50 year monopoly over what you do with the material you receive from him - even if he's sending you Creative... [09 May 2006]
Mobile push email goes open source
News The Funambol service is distributed free under the open source GPL (General Public Licence) although users can also buy support and a more feature-rich offering from the company. Following in the footsteps of the likes of Nokia and Vodafone, a US... [07 Feb 2006]
