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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Code that Microsoft released Monday for the Linux kernel under the General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) was in violation of that license before Microsoft made it available, according to an ...

Hey all, I'm pouring through the GPL here and getting a major headache. I just have to answer a quick & dirty question. At the PC shop I work at, we recycle and sell old systems. We don't have access ...

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 ...

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 ...