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Torvalds: Solaris could nudge Linux to GPL 3
June 13, 2007
The Linux leader is still skeptical about GPL 3, but open-source Solaris could be a draw.
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SCO selling Linux licenses online
February 23, 2004
The controversial software company quietly begins taking orders from companies that want to use Linux with its blessing. Meanwhile, SCO's main Web site is still offline due to MyDoom attacks.
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Free Software Foundation releases GPL 3
June 29, 2007
The new license adjusts to software industry changes but carries several new provisions.
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SCO takes Linux licensing overseas
January 14, 2004
Companies outside the United States that use the open-source operating system now face the threat of legal action from the SCO Group, which is making licenses available worldwide.
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GPL defenders say: See you in court
October 1, 2007
The Software Freedom Law Center files suit--and could roil the waters for more folks than just the single defendant.
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Lenovo denies ditching Linux
June 5, 2006
The PC maker, which recently signed a $1.2 billion Microsoft deal, says it has no plans to stop supporting the open-source OS.
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Samba will move to GPLv3
July 9, 2007
The Free Software Foundation's new license gets a major endorsement from a major server software project.
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Microsoft tries evading new GPL grasp
July 6, 2007
Redmond says it's not a party to the new license. And those Suse Linux coupons won't get you any support guarantees.
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Linux, digital rights on collision course
August 4, 2004
HP executive blames Digital Millennium Copyright Act for incompatibility with open-source software.
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SCO backs off Linux invoice plan
October 15, 2003
The SCO Group backpedals on a plan to send invoices to corporate users in order to prod them into buying licenses for their use of the open-source operating system.
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Computer Associates, others sign SCO licenses
March 5, 2004
The SCO Group confirms that three more companies--Computer Associates, Leggett & Platt, and Questar--have obtained its license for running Linux.
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Seeking 'certainty,' CEO signs SCO Linux license
March 2, 2004
The chief of Web site hosting company EV1Servers.net says it was important "to remove uncertainty and deliver stability and reliability to customers." But he also says the company is seeing some ne...
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Open-source luminaries spurn SCO
July 31, 2003
Linux development leader Linus Torvalds and Free Software Foundation attorney Eben Moglen reject SCO Group's argument that Linux users should pay license fees for using the OS.
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New GPL draft due Wednesday
March 26, 2007
A third draft of the dominant open-source license is due Wednesday, and the final is due 90 days afterward.
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SCO may raise 'Linux' license fees
August 10, 2004
Threat of higher fees may now be the only way to prod more companies into buying SCO Group licenses.
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SCO identifies Linux licensee
March 1, 2004
EV1Servers.net signs a deal that will let it run thousands of Linux servers without facing legal consequences from SCO. Other licensees are keeping mum.
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SCO wins Linux licensee
August 11, 2003
The Unix copyright holder that's threatening Linux-using firms with legal action if they don't pay to run the open-source OS says an unnamed Fortune 500 company has signed on.
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Analysts mixed about SCO actions
July 25, 2003
Industry analysts vary in their advice about how Linux users should handle SCO Group's position that they must buy a Unix license or face the possibility of legal action.
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Open-source programmer alleges Linux misuse
March 16, 2005
GPL advocate believes Motorola, 12 other companies are using Linux in violation of license that governs the software.
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Sun open-source license could mean Solaris-Linux barrier
December 2, 2004
New license likely will be used to govern Solaris OS. But it may inhibit cross-pollination between Solaris and Linux.
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