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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Microsoft, not known for playing nice with anyone, has made a surprising about-face: they’ve released Linux kernel modules under the GNU Public License. That’s right: the company that’s been trying to ...

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 ...

History records companies – some prominent, others not so – that have been made to respect the GPL through courts. For instance, TomTom, maker of popular satellite navigation wizardry, had built ...

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 ...

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 ...