Open Source / GPL

The third revision of the General Public Licence has been out for just short of three weeks but plenty of people are already questioning why take-up has been so slow.

GPL: fear is the key…

nformationWeek's article on the GPLv3 is misrepresenting, or simply wrong. The title should have been "Linus calls GPLv3 'a fine choice'" would have been a more appropriate article. See where the…

"Japan has adopted a policy under which government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors whose products support internationally recognized open standards and thus becomes…

OrangeHRM today announced the launch of version 2.2 of their flagship OrangeHRM web-based open-source human resource management system. The new version, which is the result of communication and…

Linux creator Linus Torvalds said the authors of a new software license expected to be used by thousands of open source programmers are a bunch of hypocrites and likened them to religious fanatics…

OpenLogic announced the general availability of OpenLogic Discovery, a free software tool that helps enterprises inventory the open source software installed on their computer systems. OpenLogic…

SourceForge today announced the finalists of its second annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. The awards recognize open source projects which not only have the most supportive community…

According to Palamida, GPL and LGPL conversions are up to 116 as of Monday, July 9th, 2007.

Canonical Ltd today announced the release of Storm, a generic open source object relational mapper (ORM) for Python. Storm is designed to support communication with multiple databases…

After internal consideration in the Samba Team we have decided to adopt the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licenses for all future releases of Samba.

The GPLv3 is the updated version of the GPLv2 license…