Leading Linux developers are divided on whether the open source operating system should use the next version of the GNU General Public License. The first public discussion draft of GPL 3 was released ...

More than two dozen of the most prolific Linux kernel programmers dislike a proposed update to the General Public License, which governs many open-source projects. Out of 29 kernel coders, 28 rated ...

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Redmond is proving that it can compete with open source on open source's terms by licensing LinuxIC under the GPLv2 license. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ...

Engineers familiar with Linux understand they can use a Linux kernel without having their application code becoming open source. Their applications simply “trap” to the Linux kernel and use its ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More TORONTO—On Aug. 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds sent a mailing ...

In its response, SCO argued that the GPL is “selectively enforced” by the Free Software Foundation, meaning enforcement of the Linux license is not permitted by others, such as IBM, and that the GPL ...

Also in today's open source roundup: DistroWatch reviews Korora 24, and games that never made it to SteamOS and Linux Linus Torvalds has never been one to mince words when it comes to Linux, or ...

Vyatta's Stephen Hemminger claims that Hyper-V Linux drivers had to be released for compliance with the open-source license Code that Microsoft released Monday for the Linux kernel under the GPLv2 ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...