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FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license

If the appellate court upholds that decision, which endorsed database maker Neo4j's right to amend the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3, governing the use of its software with new binding ...
PC Magazine

GNU General Public License

The license embodies the Free Software Foundation's "copyleft" rule, which means that anyone is allowed to make changes or extend the source code and redistribute it as long as the changes are clearly ...
Wired

VLC Media Player's GNU License and Apple's DRM Don't Mix

The free VLC Media Player app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad will likely soon disappear from the app store. Rémi Denis-Courmont, one of VLC's core project developers, confirmed that he's filed ...
InfoWorld

Activiti BPM project questions value of LGPL GNU license

Alfresco, SpringSource, Signavio, and Camunda have launched an open source project under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, spawned mainly by prospective Alfresco OEM partners’ weariness of GNU Lesser ...
Bleeping Computer

GNU General Public License Definition

The GNU General Public License created by the Free Software Foundation which permits copying, modification and redistribution by r equiring that all public releases of improvements to a GPL licensed ...