But the GPLv2 is there to keep it from anarchy: it doesn't block competition and people working at opposite ends, but it does block people from trying to be anti-social and hurt each other. People need social rules. The same is true of projects. And yo
... someone was reselling their creation -- without permission, under a new name, and for profit. [...] But the team was in an even tougher position because of the license under which it released its code. It didn't have one.
Oscar stands for Open Source Code Aka Rebol. The end goal of this is to create a free REBOL interpreter clone available under the GPL license as issued under the terms & conditons of the Free Software Foundation.
This matrix tries to express some proprietary-EULA, GPL, CDDL and BSD licenses in terms of the rights in copyrights and patent rights. [...] A common misconception is about CDDL and GPL incompatibility.
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project.
Published software should be free software. To make it free software, you need to release it under a free software license. We normally use the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL)
"we are nearing 100,000 projects hosted on Google Code. The trend around licensing is obvious: GPLv2/GPLv3 represent 42.6% of the projects, and Apache is 25.8%. MIT, BSD, and LGPL are at about 8% each, Artistic at 3.5%, and MPL 1.1 at a mere 2.7%. This fo
It used to be that companies could get away with stealing GPLed open-source code into their own software and no one would be the wiser. Those days are done.
WebAPP CMS is announcing radical changes. WebAPP would be going through some radical changes both in terms of script, organization and much more within the next two to three months, that is before or within the expected date for the release of a stable
Clay says we need to fill this blank "group cocreation":GPL/CC::"group action":??? in order to see open source-like models of collective action beyond the "event" and "against" models...
JavaFX: Suns CEO Jonathan Schwartz ausführlich über Java und JavaFX als RIA-Lösung mit einem deutlichen Absatz, dass JavaFX Open Source sein wird. Zitat: "JavaFX will, like all of Sun's software<sep/>