GPL 3, and open-source software news on CNET

May 23, 2007 Open-source legal expert is bullish about the prospects for the upcoming new version of the General Public License. TAGS: GPL 3, GPL, open-source software, Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation, open source, professor, Microsoft Corp.

March 28, 2007 Version 3 to block next Microsoft-Novell handshake? Latest draft aims to "prevent such deals from making a mockery of free software." TAGS: GPL 3, GPL, Free Software Foundation, draft, Novell Inc., Richard Stallman, Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds, freedom, patent, digital-rights management, Linux, open source, open-source software, agreement, Microsoft Corp.

January 16, 2007 Both DRM technology and GPL 3 will cause a lot of arguments, the man behind Linux says. But in the end, good technology will prevail. TAGS: Linus Torvalds, GPL 3, digital-rights management, GPL, argument, debate, software development, open-source software, open source, Linux

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

August 10, 2005 Release should lead to debate of near-religious fervor over future of license that governs much free and open-source software. TAGS: GPL, GPL 3, Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, GNU, Novell Inc., license, Unix, discussion, open source, Linux, open-source software, San Francisco

February 2, 2006 Linux expert and MBA candidate Alan Cox talks about the GPL, patent politics and the drive to the desktop. TAGS: software patent, GPL, GPL 3, Trusted Computing, digital-rights management, Red Hat Inc., open-source programmer, Linux, open-source software, conference, networking, open source, Sony Corp., Microsoft Corp.

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