After years of requests and debates, Sun Microsystems is ready to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license. On Monday, it plans to put the code for the programming software under the ...

The GNU General Public License (GPL) is a free software license that was devised by GNU founder Richard Stallman. The license guarantees recipients of covered software the right to use, study, modify, ...

OpenLogic, makers of open source license compliance scanning software, have released some stats about open source license proliferation and popularity and it makes for some interesting reading. The ...

The Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation says the organization wants to make the General Public License (GPL) compatible with the Apache License. A while back we took a look at the ...

Unveiled at a conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday, the Free Software Foundation's much anticipated GPL3 extends license compatibility to other open source licenses, prevents ...

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 ...

I’ve had GPL and licensing review processes in development organizations I’ve managed, and that was done with only a tiny fraction of the resources Microsoft has to make sure their software is in ...

One of the core tenets of free and open source software licenses is that you’re being provided source code for a project with the hope that you’ll “pay it forward” if and when you utilize that code.

Last Friday, Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg—the founding developer of the WordPress open source blogging and content management platform—posted an open letter on his personal blog accusing the ...