license gpl

White House releases IT Dashboard as open source code

Linux Today  Thu, 03/31/2011 - 14:07

O'Reilly Radar: "A live demonstration of the opensourced code for IT Dashboard is now online. The IT Dashboard code is available at SourceForge.net and is released under a GNU Public License (GPL).

A bug tracker and other resources are also online."


 

Caldera GPLd Its Brains Out - Want to See?

Linux Today  Sun, 01/03/2010 - 22:03

Groklaw: "Would you like to see some places where Caldera has copyright notices in Linux on code it contributed under the GPL, and you're frustrated because some of us have Caldera CDs and you don't?

Just go to Google code search and search for license:gpl "caldera.com""


 

Microsoft pulls Windows 7 tool after GPL violation claims

Linux Today  Wed, 11/11/2009 - 11:33

ars Technica: "Microsoft has pulled the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from the Microsoft Store website after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open source code in a way that violated the GNU's General Public License (GPL)."


 

Cisco Settles, But Where From Here?

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Fri, 05/22/2009 - 17:52

Until September 20, 2007, nobody had ever sued anybody for violating the General Public License (GPL) — not a single company, project, or individual developer in the license's then-eighteen year existence.

This momentous first, settled in a mere month, was only the beginning — the beginning of a landslide of litigation large enough to make Apple's lawyers cry.

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