A proposed revision of the GNU General Public License could have lasting effects on users and developers of open source software. Peter Brown, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, ...

Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push Electronics biz Vizio may be required by a ...

Yet this spring, the GPL's author will release a controversial new version of the license, a move that's already sending tremors along the software industry's fault lines. "It's almost like an iceberg ...

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 ...

Commercial software going Open Source doesn’t happen very often. In fact…I have a hard time thinking of good, successful examples off the top of my head. That’s how rarely it happens. Occasionally, ...