BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, July 16, 2025), the Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the projects that will participate in the virtual FSF40 hackathon on November 21-23 and opened ...

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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 ...

What does GNU Affero General Public License actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

The GNU Public License (GPL) is probably the most famous contract to come out of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). It was adopted by Linus Torvalds for his Linux operating system, and in turn by ...

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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 ...

Ever wanted to know the difference between Apache 2.0 and MIT? Or permissive and copyleft open source licenses? Read on.

For instance, copyleft licenses like the GNU General Purpose License, all qualify as open-source, but not all open-source licenses qualify as copyleft or meet the Free Software Foundation’s ...

GNU vcdtoolsX 0.2.1 are VcdImager tools for mastering VCDs. Changes include applying vcdtoolsX to GNU license, grammar corrections, a new check for updates function, and some bug fixes.

This is a permissive license that does not contain the “copyleft” provisions of the GNU licenses. This means that Apache OpenOffice.org is now licensed under the ASL, not the LGPL.

The GNU Public License version 2 (GPLv2) is arguably the most important open-source license for one reason: It's the license Linux uses. On November 27, three Linux-using technology powers ...