When I wrote about the wrangling over the GNU GPLv3 licence a month back, it provoked a lively conversation in the comments. Given this evident passion among readers, I thought it would be interesting ...

Released on June 29, GNU GPL (General Public License) version 3 (GPLv3) is now official and ready for use. GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix." Developed by the Free Software Foundation ...

The Free Software Foundation has released the fourth or “last-call” draft of the third version of its GNU general public license, set a date for its official publication, and laid out reasons why the ...

The Free Software Foundation is building a plug-in system for optional patent and trademark terms into the new version of its much-used, much-debated license. A new discussion draft of the Free ...

With little fanfare, Microsoft — or at least one part of it — has gone from considering the GNU General Public License v.3 (GPLv3) "evil" to "acceptable." On October 3, Microsoft announced that, for ...

The new version of the GNU software license, which will be nailed down during a two-year modification process, will be called GPLv3. A first stab at the new license, dubbed a discussion draft, will be ...

Microsoft has banned GPLv3 open-source software from Windows Phone and Xbox apps, according to Jan Wildeboer, an open source evangelist and Red Hat employee. Wildeboer is unimpressed: This is rather ...

Microsoft has finally opened itself up to GPLv3, the widely-used license for much open source software. Microsoft Technical Fellow Brian Harry noted the change on his blog, writing that open source ...