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07/23/10 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1061 Words
Their license is the GPL , so we do attempt to contact companies around the world that manufacture devices using BusyBox to honor the GPL. Sometimes companies are unresponsive to our inquiries. They don't answer our letters or phone calls. And only under...
"Just because something is FOSS does NOT give you the rights to the copyrights or trademarks!" he said. "Look up the GPL -- it says you have the right to the source code, that's it. GPL v3 has some language about trademarks...
Apple, Google and License Breaches
Apple has previously pulled several apps from the store that were determined to be under the GPL , and Google has received takedown requests for Android apps that violated the GPL, OpenLogic said.
"In...
03/24/11 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1220 Words
'Not Copyrightable Anyway'
It would have been simpler if Google had made everything GPL , Pogson conceded, "but it imported a bunch of BSD stuff and Apache stuff, so life is complicated."
Meanwhile, "the Linux folks want Linux to...
09/08/11 9:01 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 673 Words
FSF's Star Turn in the Android FUDathon, Part 2 Where did this "you are permanently barred from distributing" stuff originate? In digging around, I found a post titled "A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance" at the Software Freedom Law Center dated August 26,...
09/09/11 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 755 Words
Critics have rightly pointed out that by this definition, the GPL does not meet these standards. This doesn't make it a bad license -- sharing source code benefits everyone involved. However, heavy-handed attempts to impose further restrictions on end-users beyond the license,...
07/02/13 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1671 Words
Honestly, the very first version of Cascading was under the GPL license and not the Apache license. The GPL license allowed me to figure out what the commercial opportunities were without actually giving away the farm.
I wasn't sure if I was...
"I am a big fan of the GPL, and I recall that Linus Torvalds has said that licensing Linux under the GPL was one of the smartest things he ever did," O'Brien added. "The GPL is one of the few licenses...
Version 2 of the GPL license is thought by some to provide an implied patent license, but lawyers always feel better with an explicit license, he told LinuxInsider.
What OIN provides is something that bridges that gap. It also provides explicit...
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...
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...
Stallman didn't," Moglen said, referring to Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and to Richard Stallman, the father of the free software movement and principal author of the original GPL. "The idea of sharing has triumphed. We are winning, and we will win, but...
08/07/06 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 625 Words
"We realized it was a mistake," he said of the QPL licensing, which gives the copyright holder more control. "We [changed] not only to conform with Debian, but also because we are pretty confident about the way we are going and we think GPL ...
08/31/06 4:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 614 Words
The company should choose the GPL over CDDL because it could mean Java's incorporation into Linux distributions, he said.
"The time to compete and provide a strong alternative to .Net is now," Gardner said, criticizing Sun's continued pursuit of license fees...
04/01/07 4:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 862 Words
That also tended to influence the Java community to further embrace Eclipse, Apache and GPL , and to look to the JCP as in a mere maintenance and updates committee role, not where the next levels of technical innovation (and the next levels...
11/08/07 4:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1074 Words
"Even if we accept that CentOS does hurt Red Hat, what can Red Hat actually do about it?" wrote Jezz. "The GPL (General Public License) stops them from squashing the product -- which is exactly the point of the GPL. The GPL...
05/20/10 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 905 Words
"How can you even HAVE proprietary codecs in a GPL distro?" hairyfeet wondered. "I thought you had to be free to modify and distribute to be GPL? There is NO way that MPEG-LA or any other codec license holder is just gonna...
07/12/10 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1412 Words
'Just Add 3 Letters: GPL'
Similarly, "Well, if their enterprise value keeps nose-diving at its current rate of descent they'll be bust in four years," wrote AndyPagin. "I'll be happy to dance fanatically on their grave, or at least...
10/23/12 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1589 Words
For consumers and many supply-chain endpoints in the computing industry, however, open source players are yet to be recruited and encouraged to abide by GPL licensing dictates and code sharing rather than program stealing.
A series of OpenStack meetings by core contribution...
12/17/12 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 1781 Words
... was only a few weeks ago that the Linux blogosphere's Punchy Penguin Saloon suffered its latest round of damage thanks to the recent skirmish over the GPL , but now the popular establishment of questionable repute is actually shut down for a...
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