The Free Software Foundation is set to release the General Public License version 3 at noon on Friday (in the US).
The storage makers have settled their patent-infringement lawsuits by agreeing to share intellectual property and technology.
Free Software Foundation (FSF) senior counsel, Dan Ravicher, has put forward a recommendation to help developers avoid potential legal pitfall when distributing software under free and open source licenses.
Singapore company says it owns patent to technology used by millions of online sites worldwide to link graphics and pictures to other Web pages.
Microsoft has invested in security company Finjan Software and licensed its patents that cover ways to protect systems against previously unknown security threats.
The federal government has set a tentative date for the release of recommendations for handling intellectual property claims over business processes as the 'Web patent war' escalates in North America.
The IETF has set up a working group to clarify its policy on intellectual property claims.
A Web standards body is close to approving a key Web services specification, but concerns about patent rights may hold up the process.
In this interview Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds, sounds off on the SCO lawsuit, patents and the future of Linux.
US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.
Palm has agreed to license keyboard technology from the maker of the popular BlackBerry wireless devices.
Apple learnt its lesson when it tried - and failed - to sue Microsoft for copyright infringement of its interface. It has since turned its attention to patents but should not be allowed to succeed here either.
Apple have previewed QuickTime Broadcaster, a new addition to the QuickTime product family that allows live broadcasting of events over the Internet.
RealNetworks on Wednesday released the last piece of its three-part open-source code for streaming digital media, but the server code lacks support for the industry standard MPEG-4.
The latest lawsuit against Intel could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars and eventually have an impact on every PC maker that uses Pentium processors.
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