Some developers are concerned that the introduction of the third version of the GNU General Public License could split the free-software world, but the Free Software Foundation is confident that these ...

After several years of debate and more than 18 months of sometimes passionate public comments and revisions, the latest GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) software license will officially be ...

The Free Software Foundation’s Bradley Kuhn believes the GNU General Public License has a positive effect on the software industry. The GNU General Public License has a positive effect on the software ...

Free Software Foundation's attorney explains how Hollywood and TiVo use GPL now--and how they might use the next version. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

If the appellate court upholds that decision, which endorsed database maker Neo4j's right to amend the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3, governing the use of its software with new binding ...

SCO’s Chris Sontag argues there are many reasons that the GNU General Public License is bad for the software industry. The General Public License is not good for the software industry for a variety of ...

Better, perhaps, for people who want to benefit from free software in their own non-free software. I suspect that people who choose to license their code under the GPL don't see that as a good thing.

The next version of the General Public License may contain a clause to penalize companies that use software patents against free software. GPL version 3, a draft of which will be released in January ...