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12/08/03 10:51 AM PT | TechNewsWorld | 1243 Words
... week was looking relatively uneventful until I got a copy of SCO CEO Darl McBride's "Open Letter" in which he argues that the Linux GPL is unconstitutional. Now, for some of you, you red-lined the letter and spent the next several hours...
Wind River confirmed the company's concerns, some of which still remain, over the Linux GPL , telling LinuxInsider that Wind River is seeing embedded Linux encroach on the market. "With these announcements, we're starting to take a step-by-step approach to Linux," the...
11/30/17 11:18 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 639 Words
Red Hat , Google , Facebook and IBM said they would apply error standards in the most recent GNU General Public License agreement, GPLv3, to all of their open source licensing, even licenses granted under older GPL agreements.
"There is no procedure...
04/19/17 2:56 PM PT | LinuxInsider | 1360 Words
Some 85 percent of the audited applications contained components with conflicts, most often violations of the General Public License, or GPL. Three-quarters of the applications contained components under the GPL family of licenses. Only 45 percent of them were in compliance.
02/05/15 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1104 Words
Its AAC encoder is now the default as FAAC has been removed due to GPL compatibility issues. This encoder should work fine for most needs. But it still has quirks. So HandBrake also enabled support for the FDK-AAC encoder.
The drawback to...
"I love that Microsoft is considering open source, but I have seen no movement towards the GPL," Stone told Linux Girl. "This strikes me as an opportunity to get their software on multiple platforms but tie the developers down to Microsoft."...
01/27/14 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1218 Words
Here in the Linux community, it's no secret that there are more flavors of our favorite operating system than most of...
11/25/13 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1225 Words
Moreover, "the GPL was a real milestone," O'Brien added. "Linus Torvalds has said that choosing the GPL was among the best decisions he ever made."
Similarly, "the FLOSS universe is huge, but I would give my vote to Richard Matthew Stallman...
09/30/13 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1252 Words
First, "how are they gonna have DRM in SteamOS without running afoul of the GPL?" hairyfeet asked. "After all, Google had to spend over a billion to make their GPL V2-only fork for Android and ChromeOS, and I just don't see Valve...
01/10/13 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1314 Words
Where their hatred of RMS and GPL came from is beyond me; PTSD, perhaps? "Raw performance: How soon people forget that M$ was willing to ship software that crashed at the drop of a hat for years before GNU/Linux and Free Software showed...
11/12/12 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 964 Words
It may not be likely thanks to the GPL , "but since Google already pulled it off, and, as M$ is the copycat company (Zune, Kin, Surface, Bing), it's not impossible."
With a "maneuver staged to show 'Hey, Microsoft has changed' and...
10/08/12 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1040 Words
'The GPL Is More End-User Friendly'
For Slashdot blogger hairyfeet, it's all a matter of licensing.
"The Apache license is more developer friendly, the GPL is more end-user friendly, so it all depends on which of those you are,"...
05/29/12 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 863 Words
"Certainly Google did not copy much of Java, if any, and the APIs were released under the GPL anyway if the world was welcome to write Java software," Pogson added. "How do you do that without the APIs?"
The same law...
05/17/12 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1007 Words
"It's common knowledge that NOBODY in business will go near GPL after the V3 debacle," he noted. "Apache on the other hand is MUCH more business-friendly, and the Apache server is used all across the business landscape, so I can see businesses...
03/19/12 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1555 Words
'Bad Actors on Both Sides'
Part of the issue is that "there are bad actors on both sides: pedantics from OSS who scream at any hint of business and profits, and poseurs from business who violate GPL while walking away...
11/10/11 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 893 Words
"As often happens, a couple of developers at a company found a way to improve core Samba code," Hertel went on. "They got permission to submit the patches under their own copyright and the terms of the GPL , and they sent...
11/01/11 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1066 Words
A Final Lesson ...
There has been a long history of such attacks on anyone who "dares" to make a profit , even indirectly, with open source code that is licensed under the GPL . It's no coincidence that alternatives...
09/15/11 11:04 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1307 Words
Add to that the way that each iteration of the GPL adds more restrictions, and maybe it's time for yet another license -- but Bruce Perens' covenant isn't it.
And now for something completely different...
Part 2: The Respect The Programmer...
09/07/11 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1884 Words
You're right to point out that most parties that enforce the GPL are happy to let violators continue distributing during the compliance process. The article itself makes this same point, even explicitly observing that -- to the best of our knowledge --...
'The Thin Edge of the Wedge'
Indeed, "M$ hates Free Software of any kind," blogger Robert Pogson agreed. "They have attacked Linux, the GPL , copyleft, etc. -- stuff that would be of no interest to them at all except...
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