The free software movement has come a long way in forty years. We want to take a moment to thank the people and projects who ...

The free software movement has come a long way in forty years. We want to take a moment to thank the people and projects who have helped bring us to this point, and ask for your support in the decades ...

The free software foundation said on Tuesday it would start adapting rules for development and use of free software by including penalties against those who patent software or use anti-piracy ...

The spread of free software and the subsequent promotion of its use by governments throughout the world is a fascinating phenomenon. Many countries currently are considering laws in which free ...

(1) Software that is free of charge. See freeware. (2) Software that is free of restrictions and which may be free of charge. Free software licenses grant users the freedom to use it for any purpose, ...

Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, has often rubbed other free software groups the wrong way when it came to open-source licenses. On July 15, Canonical, with support from the Free Software ...

A federal appeals court has overruled a lower court ruling that, if sustained, would have severely hampered the enforceability of free software licenses. The lower court had found that redistributing ...

While the Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public Licenses (GPL) are used in nearly three-quarters of all free and open source software, GPL-based licenses not the only game in town. Part 1 of ...

The next version of the General Public License may contain a clause to penalize companies that use software patents against free software. GPL version 3, a draft of which will be released in January ...

Cisco Systems will appoint a director to ensure that its Linksys products comply with the terms of free software licenses, and in return the Free Software Foundation will dismiss its lawsuit against ...

Thinking of submitting an application to the Windows Phone Marketplace? Better check the fine print in the developer agreement. Microsoft has a message there for many free and open source developers: ...