A couple of weeks ago there was a major showdown in the free and open source world over GPL3. At one end of the dusty street: Linux kernel developers, led by Linus Torvalds. At the other end of the ...

Since the main point of the Free Software Foundation's new GPL3 (General Public License 3) is to prevent "TiVo-isation," this surely does not come as a surprise. However, Information Week reports that ...

The next version of the GNU General Public License (GPL) may contain provisions aimed at curbing a controversial deal recently signed by Linux vendor Novell with arch-rival Microsoft. That deal -- ...

Digital rights management (DRM) and the upcoming General Public Licence (GPL) version 3 are generating a heated debate within the open source communities, but do represent any real issues, according ...

ChemHacker has posted schematics and code for a scanning tunneling microscope. [Sacha De’Angeli] finalized the proof-of-concept design for version 0.1 and released all of the information under the Gnu ...