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 ...

New license likely will be used to govern Solaris OS. But it may inhibit cross-pollination between Solaris and Linux. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

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The Linux android user agreement the GPLv2 has been broken by many of the biggest Android companies according to one patent expert. Florian Muller described Android vendors as having a “rampant ...

BOSTON, Mass. — The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Linux, announced on Aug. 10 at LinuxCon the launch of the Open Compliance Program, a comprehensive initiative ...

SCO Group, a company that says Linux infringes on its Unix intellectual property, announced on Monday that it has been granted key Unix copyrights and will start a program to let companies that run ...

Linux users outside of the Fortune 1,000 can’t buy the software license The SCO Group Inc. has been offering since August to protect them against legal action, the company confirmed yesterday. “We’re ...

The snowballing success of Linux has attracted involvement from all corners of the computing realm--but the breadth of that interest is expected to complicate a revision of the software's legal ...