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 GPL... |
9 January 2008
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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 free and open source licenses, the fa... |
11 September 2007
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All Windows Vista users from a city in Sweden are completely cut off from the worldwide web by a barrier of Linux servers. Running Microsoft's latest operating system in Lund is a move equivalent to accepting an Internet blackout because of incompatibility issues between Vista and the Linux distribution on the s... |
31 August 2007
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Microsoft played around with open source and got burned with the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3), revealed the Free Software Foundation. Back in November 2006, the Redmond company inked a Windows-Linux interoperability and intellectual property assurance agreement with Linux distributor Novell. The open ... |
29 August 2007
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Microsoft wants nothing to do with the third version of the GNU General Public License, delivered on June 29. The Redmond company issued a public response to GPLv3 stating clearly that it does not want under any circumstances to be considered a party to the license. Microsoft also added that it will assume no legal o... |
6 July 2007
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The third version of the famous GNU General Public License (GPL) was proposed by the Free Software Foundation as an assurance for the users who modify the free software on their personal and household devices, granting them patent licenses. It should also extend the compatibility with the other free software licenses... |
30 June 2007
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