At a JavaOne Conference panel, Free Software Foundation (FSF) executive director Peter Brown said that he thinks the General Public License version 3 (GPL3) draft will still be modified to establish ...

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The Free Software Foundation is building a plug-in system for optional patent and trademark terms into the new version of its much-used, much-debated license. A new discussion draft of the Free ...

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 ...

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SANTA CLARA, USA: Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of the OpenJDK Community Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) License. With the new release, Sun is placing the means ...

Open source software (OSS) has become an indispensable element of modern technological ecosystems, enabling global collaboration, rapid innovation and widespread access to cutting‐edge tools. Central ...

SAN FRANCISCO--In a significant change of course, the Free Software Foundation is working to make the upcoming version 3 of the General Public License (GPL) compatible with an alternative, the Apache ...