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  • New GPL draft due Wednesday

    A new phase of wrangling over the future of the dominant open-source license, the General Public License, is set to begin on Wednesday and to end 90 days afterward.

  • New GPL draft has olive branches, thorns

    The latest draft of revisions to the dominant open-source license offers an accommodating approach to some significant objections, but it could throw a wrench into the works of a major open-source company, Novell.

  • Newest GPL draft leaves Novell in the clear

    The Free Software Foundation released the final draft of an updated General Public License late last week, a draft that prohibits future deals similar to the Microsoft-Novell patent pact but lets that one go ahead.

  • Eben Moglen predicts broad embrace of GPL 3

    The open-source legal expert is bullish about the prospects for the upcoming new version of the General Public License.

  • GPL3 could block Novell/Microsoft plans

    The next version of the GNU General Public License (GPL) may contain provisions aimed at curbing a controversial deal recently signed by Linux vendor Novell with arch-rival Microsoft.

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  • Patent problems plague Linux

    The patent system is supposed to encourage technological innovation. Instead, it rewards those who have the knowledge and resources to work it to their advantage.

  • Defender of the Linux faith

    Linux kernel developer Harald Welte talks about the challenges of single-handedly tackling companies that violate the GPL.

  • Torvalds: Next Linux due by June

    The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, according to project founder Linus Torvalds.

  • Open-source Visionary: Proprietary software is not okay

    When he began his one-man mission in 1984, critics dismissed Richard Stallman as tilting at windmills. Has his labour paid off?

  • Did SCO open Unix source code?

    Several organisations argue that SCO's shipment of a Linux product undermines its current attack on the operating system's intellectual-property underpinnings, but SCO says the argument is baseless.

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  • Torvalds: Next Linux due by June

    The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, according to project founder Linus Torvalds.

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