With little fanfare, Microsoft — or at least one part of it — has gone from considering the GNU General Public License v.3 (GPLv3) "evil" to "acceptable." On October 3, Microsoft announced that, for ...

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Microsoft has finally opened itself up to GPLv3, the widely-used license for much open source software. Microsoft Technical Fellow Brian Harry noted the change on his blog, writing that open source ...

It's been a long, bumpy ride getting version 3 of the GNU General Public License out the door. The fourth and final draft of the GPLv3 license was released by the Free Software Foundation late ...

Is the GPL forking itself? That's what Mark Lewis of EMC believes and, to the extent that he's correct, it's a serious problem. Matt Asay Contributing Writer Matt Asay is a veteran technology ...

The Free Software Foundation has released the fourth or “last-call” draft of the third version of its GNU general public license, set a date for its official publication, and laid out reasons why the ...

The Microsoft-Novell Linux alliance may have gotten shakier, with Microsoft saying it doesn't recognize the latest version of the standard license for open source software (OSS). The Microsoft-Novell ...

BOSTON (03/27/2007) – Months later than had been expected, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) intends to release the third draft of its GNU general public license version 3 (GPLv3) on Wednesday. The ...

Microsoft Corp. yesterday rejected the idea that its deal last year with Novell Inc. ties it to the new General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) and said it will not support any software distributed ...

On July 3, 2025, Daniel announced that he had developed a real-time conference assistant called ' Glass ' in just four days and released it as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. This is a tool ...