Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Linus Torvalds could see using the proposed GPL 3 license ...

The latest GPL 3 draft blocks developers from conveying GPL-covered works if they have in place an arrangement with a third party that has granted a patent license selectively to that developer's ...

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 ...

Leading Linux developers are divided on whether the open source operating system should use the next version of the GNU General Public License. The first public discussion draft of GPL 3 was released ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. In a message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List on Jan. 25, ...

The Free Software Foundation Inc. (FSF) is due to release the initial draft of the GNU general public license (GPL) version 3 Monday. Software vendors and lawyers expect the draft to include a number ...

After four drafts, broad discussion, and extensive public review, the FSF has finally published the official, much-anticipated GPL revision 3 (GPL 3). The new version aims to clarify aspects of the ...

The last-call draft, posted on the FSF's Web site, features a few changes from the nearly final draft the FSF published in late March. Most significantly, the new draft resolves a number of arcane ...

Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord announced today at the KDE release event that the company's cross-platform open-source Qt application development toolkit will be released under the GPL 3. This move, which ...