Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

The company is very close to announcing that it will put the mobile (ME) and standard (SE) editions of the Java platform into the GNU General Public License (GPL), with the Java Enterprise Edition and ...

If the appellate court upholds that decision, which endorsed database maker Neo4j's right to amend the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3, governing the use of its software with new binding ...

Representatives of the FSF and the Apache Software Foundation said Tuesday that they expect to iron out the "11th hour" legal problem that created incompatibility in the latest and near-final GPL ...

I started to consider the reasons why open source vendors select the GPL after ESR wrote: The GPL may be a community-building signaling device, but it is also a confession of fear and weakness. To ...

New GNU AGPLv3 license ensures that modifications to software used to power publicly available services will be contributed to the free software community The Free Software Foundation has published a ...

The GNU General Public License (GPL) is a free software license that was devised by GNU founder Richard Stallman. The license guarantees recipients of covered software the right to use, study, modify, ...

With this entry, guest blogger Bernard Golden begins his series of commentaries on the ongoing revision process for the General Public License. Open source has brought a new set of rules to the table ...

After years of requests and debates, Sun Microsystems is ready to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license. On Monday, it plans to put the code for the programming software under the ...