Some ancient source code given away freely by Sun in 1984 turned out to have a non-free-software license all these years, upsetting the licensing purity of glibc and everything built with it. This may ...
The rules governing the use of most free software programs will be revised for the first time in 15 years, in an open process that begins Wednesday. Free software, once regarded as a tiny ...
General Public License governing heart of popular open-source OS is being updated to deal with patents, other issues. But it'll be a struggle. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...