Representatives of the FSF and the Apache Software Foundation said Tuesday that they expect to iron out the "11th hour" legal problem that created incompatibility in the latest and near-final GPL ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

At a JavaOne Conference panel, Free Software Foundation (FSF) executive director Peter Brown said that he thinks the General Public License version 3 (GPL3) draft will still be modified to establish ...

The Free Software Foundation is building a plug-in system for optional patent and trademark terms into the new version of its much-used, much-debated license. A new discussion draft of the Free ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation says the organization wants to make the General Public License (GPL) compatible with the Apache License. A while back we took a look at the ...

The Mozilla Foundation will re-write its Mozilla Public License to make it more compatible with Apache and more globally acceptable. Mozilla is best known for its Firefox browser. (Picture from ...

SAN FRANCISCO--In a significant change of course, the Free Software Foundation is working to make the upcoming version 3 of the General Public License (GPL) compatible with an alternative, the Apache ...