A couple of weeks ago there was a major showdown in the free and open source world over GPL3. At one end of the dusty street: Linux kernel developers, led by Linus Torvalds. At the other end of the ...
Since the main point of the Free Software Foundation's new GPL3 (General Public License 3) is to prevent "TiVo-isation," this surely does not come as a surprise. However, Information Week reports that ...
Linus Torvalds thinks that the transition to GPL 3 might be worthwhile if it would facilitate the exchange of code between Linux and OpenSolaris, but he remains skeptical of Sun's motivations. I ...
ChemHacker has posted schematics and code for a scanning tunneling microscope. [Sacha De’Angeli] finalized the proof-of-concept design for version 0.1 and released all of the information under the Gnu ...
Sun Microsystems is opening the door to backing the upcoming General Public Licence version 3.0 (GPL3). Sun's chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, wrote in a blog posting that he would be "very ...