Since the source code is usually available, software under a free or open open source license can be re-used within another software project rather easily. That is, after all, the whole point of FLOSS ...

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 ...

perspective Talk about a clean victory. The "GPL and open-source have nothing to fear from the antitrust laws," declared the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently. That was in ...

As Apache licenses proliferate, two warring camps have formed over whether the GPL is or isn't falling out of favor A debate has raged for months about open source licensing trends. It all started ...

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 ...

Until a contract is changed by a court it means what it says. And that's all the GPL is, a contract. As George Ou writes today, TinyPEAP used GPL software, from FreeRADIUS, and the program had to be ...