MySQL Refines its GPL Licensing Scheme to GPLv2 Only

Just before the holiday's MySQL refined its licensing scheme from “GPLv2 or later” to “GPLv2 only“, in order to make it an option, not an obligation for the company to move to GPLv3.

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SCALE To Host Women in Open Source Mini Conference

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Los Angeles, CA

January 2, 2007

The Southern California Linux Expo announces plans…

Straddling the Open Source/Proprietary Fence

Given the jaw-dropping occurrences in the open source world last year (Red Hat’s acquisition of JBoss, Oracle’s announcement of “Unbreakable Linux,” and Novell’s patent pact with Microsoft, to…

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Wins Technology of the Year Award

Novell today announced its SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 has earned a 2007 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award, being named "Best Linux Desktop." According to InfoWorld, "Novell's revamped…

Windows vs. Open Source in 2007

The open source arena is forming a rather formidable fan following. In the beginning this was a small community known onl to a niche audience but today we see a different picture. Commercial…

Free Culture Foundation enters the copyright debate

The Free Culture Foundation was launched today to promote and protect cultural freedoms. The Foundation provides an accessible, independent introduction to the free culture movement, now a global…

Anger as EU ignores open-source video

More than 7,000 angry Linux users have protested against the European Union after it excluded them from viewing streaming videos.

The EU makes streaming videos of many of its most important…

Pentaho CEO to Speak at Open Source Meets Business Congress

Pentaho Corp., creator of the world's most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced that Pentaho CEO Richard Daley will be speaking at the Open Source Meets Business…

Xbox 360 to Run Linux / Homebrew Soon?

An anonymous person at the German 23C3 Hacker Congress showed what could be an Xbox360 hack/exploit during one of the 'Lightning Talks'. Lightning Talks is a daily event at Chaos Communication…

Son's Testimony May Be Key In Reiser Murder Hearing

The testimony of 7-year-old Rory Reiser emerged Tuesday as a key factor in the case against Oakland software developer Hans Reiser on charges that he murdered his estranged wife Nina Reiser, who…