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.
The open-source legal expert is bullish about the prospects for the upcoming new version of the General Public License.
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.
The Free Software Foundation is no longer committing to the planned March deadline for a new version of the General Public License, but a third draft of the seminal open-source license is due soon.
When it comes to open sourcing Solaris and Java, patents and politics are leading Sun toward a change of heart.
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.
The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, according to project founder Linus Torvalds.
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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