General Public License governing heart of popular open-source OS is being updated to deal with patents, other issues. But it'll be a struggle. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Linux leader Linus Torvalds has finally found something that could convince him that the forthcoming version 3 of the General Public License is worth adopting: open-source Solaris. "If Sun really is ...

There are dozens of different software license structures ranging from the legal structures of the GPL and Chinese government policy on the one hand to nextgen DRM and Microsoft's end user licenses on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, remains unimpressed with a proposed update to the license that governs the open-source operating system and has no plans to adopt it for the Linux kernel. The ...

I've seen several stories latley stating that if you buy a SCO license, SCO won't sue you for using Linux. This is based on the claim that some of their code is being used in Linux. So the end result ...

Open source advocates on Monday blasted a Linux licensing scheme that The SCO Group is proposing to address alleged copyright violations in the Linux operating system. SCO Chief Executive Officer Darl ...