Open Source / GPL

The Free Software Foundation has released the final draft of an updated General Public License, a draft that prohibits future deals similar to the Microsoft-Novell patent pact, but lets that deal…

Joomla! project leader Louis Landry and his colleagues want to protect the project they love. That's why, after two years of allowing proprietary plugins for the open source CMS, the group has…

"Dana Blankenhorn's story How far can open source CRM get? has finally pushed me to respond to the many people who have asked "When is the OSI going to stand up to companies who are flagrantly…

According to a new survey of IT procurement officers, German companies models of open source adoption, with more that 59 percent of companies currently using open source software.

This…

Two different approaches and viewpoints about professional open source collided in a recent blogspace discussion where Rod Johnson (creator of the Spring Framework & CEO of Interface21 which…

Apple chief Steve Jobs expects to do more than lure Internet Explorer users to Apple's forthcoming version of Safari for Windows - he envisions a duopoly within the browser market at the expense…

How does License Proliferation effect medical software and what can we do about it? How to choose a license for your medical software project? What are the implications for the medical FOSS…

After several years of evaluation, the Navy Department has approved the use of open-source software in all Navy and Marine Corps information technology systems.

A June 5 memo from Navy…

In a post to the Linux Kernel Mailing list Torvalds states "I'm damn fed up with the FSF being the 'protector of freedoms', and also feeling that they can define what those freedoms mean." The…

From TiVo's annual report: "If the currently proposed version of GPLv3 is widely adopted, we may be unable to incorporate future enhancements to the GNU/Linux operating system into our software,…