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Red Hat cancels Fedora Foundation

April 5, 2006 Company has other ideas for open-source patent protections and governance of its hobbyist Linux product. TAGS: Red Hat Inc., Fedora Project, foundation, intellectual property, Fedora Core, open source, Linux

Mozilla plans to fund developer community

March 22, 2006 "While we have funds beyond our operating levels, some of it should to go to community members," company CEO says. TAGS: Mitchell Baker, fund, open-source project, Mozilla Corp., contributor, foundation, open source, community, Yahoo! Inc., CEO

Free Software Foundation releases GPL 3

June 29, 2007 The new license adjusts to software industry changes but carries several new provisions. TAGS: GPL, GPL 3, GPL 2, Free Software Foundation, foundation, license, GNU, Linux kernel, provision, Novell Inc., Richard Stallman, open source, Unix, Linux, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Newest GPL draft leaves Novell in the clear

June 1, 2007 Final draft of GPL 3 doesn't block the Novell-Microsoft patent pact that has raised open-source hackles. TAGS: GPL 3, GPL, Novell Inc., foundation, draft, open source, coupon, barrier, work, Microsoft Corp.

XenSource gets new CEO, direction

February 15, 2006 Open-source start-up names Veritas veteran Peter Levine to top post, while two co-founders depart from company. TAGS: Peter Levine, XenSource Inc., Xen, co-founder, foundation, VERITAS Software Corp., open source, Sun Solaris, CEO, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, OEM, IBM Corp., operating system

New GPL draft takes second crack at DRM

July 27, 2006 Second draft of General Public License 3 "clarifies" digital rights management provisions, a point of contention. Draft version 3 of GPL in full TAGS: GPL, digital-rights management, draft, provision, foundation, GPLv3, Free Software Foundation, open source, Red Hat Inc., Linux

Two Linux consortia band together

January 22, 2007 Open Source Developer Labs and Free Standards Group have merged into the Linux Foundation in an effort to increase their influence. TAGS: Open Source Development Labs, influence, Linux, foundation, consortium, product manager, intellectual property, open source, resource, operating system

Torvalds critical of new GPL draft

July 28, 2006 Linux leader maintains his objections to provisions against digital rights managment. TAGS: Linus Torvalds, GPL 3, GPL, Free Software Foundation, draft, GPLv3, digital-rights management, foundation, license, leader, Linux, open-source software, open source, IBM Corp., HP
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