Skype Withdraws Appeal Case and GPL Wins
	After last year's case, when the high district court of Munich, Germany, issued an injunction against Skype for selling the SMC WSKP 100 Linux-based WiFi VoIP phone, the Luxembourg-based company seems to be plagued with legal problems once more, this time related to the violation of the GPL license. After the initial GPL violation, Skype provided a flier with the URL for the source code with the package and now they decided ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 10:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Auto-Replicating 3D Printer, Now Available for Free
	The RepRap project managed to give birth to something that you might call a printer only if you think outside the box. The RepRap (Replicating Rapid-prototyper) device is able to replicate and update itself whenever it is necessary. In order to update itself, the unit prints its own parts. According to software developer and artist Vik Olliver, one of the persons involved with the 3D printing project, the regular 3D printer is ... [read more >>]
	08 April 2008, 09:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

SimCity's Code Released Under GPL
	Don Hopkins has released the original SimCity source code under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The source code contains no references to the original SimCity game, as it will be renamed to Micropolis. This was the original working title, and some work had to be done to the code so that the open source version will not use copyrighted elements. The original system got modified, featuring a new splash screen, removal of the plane ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 11:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Linus Torvalds Says "No" to GPLv3
	Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, has no plans to license it under GPLv3 anytime soon. Torvalds criticized the third version of the GNU General Public License from the time it was just a draft, and, in an interview for Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, he said that he preferred GPLv2. The interv ... [read more >>]
	09 January 2008, 10:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Asus Patches the Eee Warranty Policy
	Asustek's Eee PCs have sold extremely well mostly due to their small price, actually, world's smallest price for a 12-inch sub-notebook. Well, of course that the cheapest laptop in the class would be functionally limited and would feature low-end hardware for basic computing only. ... [read more >>]
	10 December 2007, 03:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Asus to Take Liability for Missing Code
	There was a whole explosion of anger and disappointment emanated from GPL supporters, after software developer Cliff Biffle had revealed a few discrepancies between the pre-installed Eee OS and the source code available for download on the producer's website. Biffle affirmed that the 1.8 GB tarball that included the operating system source code only contained a few kernel headers and some Debian package files that were ... [read more >>]
	29 November 2007, 06:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Live Up by the License, or Lose Respect
	Open Source is a really weird world. Apart from the high quality source code you may use either at home or inside your enterprise, a closer look on the license shows you plenty of "You can" and "You are allowed to" formulations. There are a few things you are not allowed to do, but Asus managed to find a "Don't" and had to stick with it. ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Asus Eee PC Limps Over GPL Definition
	Asus has done quite a job when launching their low-price Eee series, and has been in the spotlight ever since. Recently, one of their customers, programmer Cliff Biffle, decided to turn the weapons against his own computer supplier. While disassembling the Xandros Linux operating system, which is absolutely permitted under the Free & Open Source license, Biffle couldn't help noticing that asus_acpi kernel module was d ... [read more >>]
	24 November 2007, 05:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Low-budget, Open Source VGA Video Card Being Created
	A low budget, open source, VGA compatible video card is under serious development by Michael Meeuwisse and a few contributors. The goal of "Project VGA" is to create a video card that's under $294, or 200 Euros. If everything goes well, you could buy one of these cards from the Wacco Webstack site, owned by Micha ... [read more >>]
	12 November 2007, 06:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

First GPL Lawsuit in the USA
	Monsoon Multimedia, an American company and software vendor is taken to court for violating the GPL license. Before this all, GPL violations used to be resolved by letters from open-source organizations – which in this case is the Free Software Foundation – that presented the violations. Yesterday, the Software Freedom Law Center (S ... [read more >>]
	21 September 2007, 05:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GPLv3 Has Been Officially Approved
	Open Source Initiative's licensing board officially approved the third version of the General Public License (GPL) and Lesser General Public License (LGPL), as Open Source Initiative's chairman, Michael Tiemann, said. Although the GPL is used for almost three-quarters of fr ... [read more >>]
	11 September 2007, 05:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Are id Software and Valve Thieves?
	It seems that id Software and Valve are into the monkey business. No actually, just in business, as they&# ... [read more >>]
	06 August 2007, 10:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Skype, Troubled by the GPLv2 License
	The famous Skype which develops a highly spread peer-to-peer Internet telephony network and competes against the older existing VoIP protocols such as SIP or IAX is now into some troubles with a German court regarding one of its products. It seems that Skype’s WSKP100 Linux-based phone, made by SMC and distributed in more places in Europe (Germany included), does not provide access to the source code for every user, even thou ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 15:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samba Team Announced the Adoption of GPLv3
	According to an announcement released a few days ago, Samba adopted the latest GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licenses for all their future releases. The third version of the famous GNU General Public License (GPL) was proposed by the Free Software Foundation a while ago as an assurance for the users who modify the free software on their perso ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2007, 07:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GPLv3 Is Almost Here
	The well-known General Public Licence (GPL) is about to reach its third version, as the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced this week. According to FSF officials the day GPL3 is scheduled to be released is this Friday, June 2007. The license upgrading issue stirred many controversies in the open source community, dividing it in two camps: those who were pro a new GPL version and those, among whom Linus Torvalds, who con ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2007, 13:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Linus Torvalds Considers Unlikely a Kernel Dual Licensing
	On the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LMKL) some interesting posts related to the GPL v2 and 3 licenses have been recently made by Linus Torvalds. The famous Linux developer mainly voices against FSF's GPLv3, which – according to him – features an anti-DRM language and also takes in some slippery words which do not exactly come to support the "spirit of the GPL". While some GPLv3 fans accuse him of misunderstanding ... [read more >>]
	14 June 2007, 10:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GPL 3 to Bring New Specifications to Significant Problems
	GPL or GNU GPL stands for the GNU General Public License which was originally written by Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, for the GNU project. According to the GPL, a computer program enjoys the rights of the free software definition and uses copyleft to ensure preservations of the privileges even when it is altered or has more additions. An important aspect that is worth mentioning here would be that the source ... [read more >>]
	18 May 2007, 07:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia