A third draft of the dominant open-source license is due Wednesday, and the final is due 90 days afterward. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

The fall of GPLv2 below 50 percent of all open-source projects may not be cause for panic, but it likely is a harbinger of more Apache code to come. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has ...

Yet this spring, the GPL's author will release a controversial new version of the license, a move that's already sending tremors along the software industry's fault lines. "It's almost like an iceberg ...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds, in an interview made public by the Linux Foundation on Tuesday, stressed that Version 2 of the GPL (GNU General Public License) still makes the most sense for the Linux ...

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 ...

The Linux creator says that while version 3 could become useful, GPL 2 more closely matches what he wants from a license Linux creator Linus Torvalds, in an interview being made public by the Linux ...