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 ...

Representatives of the FSF and the Apache Software Foundation said Tuesday that they expect to iron out the "11th hour" legal problem that created incompatibility in the latest and near-final GPL ...

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, remains unimpressed with a proposed update to the license that governs the open-source operating system and has no plans to adopt it for the Linux kernel. The ...

Following years of consultation with academic institutions, industry and open-source developers, the Free Software Foundation is readying a proposal for GPL 3 that will attempt to eliminate the small ...

Luis Villa pointed me to a paper that I had already downloaded, but had yet to read. At his prompting, I went through it this morning (My vacation had already been interrupted by a night of sick ...