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, ...

The license that forms the legal underpinnings of Linux--and a software industry revolution--is being updated for the first time since 1991. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

When Alan Shimel reported on the recent court decision against Westinghouse Digital in the BusyBox suit, he talked of the GPL having teeth. Think about the teeth of a saw. Very useful, but requiring ...

As we all know, Google has steadfastly refused to release the code for any version of Android 3.x. Nor have any of the manufacturers of devices using the software done so. What I can't understand is ...

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Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development software, made a decision filled with implications ...

I started to consider the reasons why open source vendors select the GPL after ESR wrote: The GPL may be a community-building signaling device, but it is also a confession of fear and weakness. To ...

Yet this spring, the GPL's author will release a controversial new version of the license, a move that's already sending tremors along the software industry's fault lines. "It's almost like an iceberg ...