The third version of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3), released last summer, is on the slow road to acceptance. The new licensing conditions usher in numerous changes in how open ...

The Free Software Foundation has release the third discussion draft of GPL v3. The new draft incorporates from the general public as well as international discussion committees. The revised GPL v3 ...

After an unprecedented development process that brought four drafts in eighteen months, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has released the third version of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), ...

But the essential result is that many more people will be trying to figure what GPL v3 means for a long time. If Sun doesn't know right away, who does? With Sun equivocating, rather than ...

Version 3 of the Gnu GPL (General Public License) is nearing completion. The third draft — expected to be the last before the license is finalized — was released last Wednesday, fully eight months ...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) hopes to release the final draft of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL v3) by Jan. 1, 2007, a lawyer involved in writing the license said Tuesday. However ...

The GNU General Public Licence is falling in popularity, according to figures released by Black Duck that looked at all versions of the GPL as a whole. At the same time, Microsoft's open source ...

The number of open-source projects that use the GNU General Public License Version 3 has grown to more than 2,000, according to Palamida, which sells software and services for tracking open-source ...

The ever-outspoken founder of the GNU Software Foundation and principal author of the GPL, Richard Stallman, was interviewed by Computer World last week. Stallman talks about (what else?) software ...

While the GPL v3 is a more recognized and established open source license, the recently-released EUPL v1.1 is making waves licensing world. Unique in its encouragement of interoperability, freedom, ...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) hopes to release the final draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPL v3) by Jan. 1, 2007, a lawyer involved in writing the license said Tuesday. However ...