The GNU Public License (GPL) is probably the most famous contract to come out of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). It was adopted by Linus Torvalds for his Linux operating system, and in turn by ...

A GNU license for developers who make their software available to users on network servers. The Affero GPL includes a provision that enables developers to download the source code. It was created to ...

The final version of the GNU General Public License 3.0 should be published before the end of June, bringing to an end some 18 months of discussions around the new license, the Free Software ...

Alfresco, SpringSource, Signavio, and Camunda have launched an open source project under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, spawned mainly by prospective Alfresco OEM partners’ weariness of GNU Lesser ...

The license embodies the Free Software Foundation's "copyleft" rule, which means that anyone is allowed to make changes or extend the source code and redistribute it as long as the changes are clearly ...

For companies that build equipment like CNC machines or lasercutters, it’s tempting to use open-source software in a lot of areas. After all, it’s stable, featureful, and has typically passed the test ...

The GNU General Public License created by the Free Software Foundation which permits copying, modification and redistribution by r equiring that all public releases of improvements to a GPL licensed ...