Tag: copyleft
The What, Why and How of the GPL
Much of the world’s most important, commercially significant software is distributed under copyright licensing terms that give recipients freedom to copy, modify and redistribute...
A Peek into Open Source Licences
Open source is the mantra of today's tech world. While it is being used in that personal computer sitting on your desk, it is...
FOSS is __FUN__: The Fifth Freedom
Stallman's classic definition of open source speaks of the four freedoms -- the freedom to run the program in any way one likes, the...
An Interview with Richard Stallman on Freedom, Android, Amazon, Facebook, Steve...
Any government that tells people to teach proprietary software is essentially delivering the country into the hands of a company.
Before you even speak a...
Protecode: Software License Management is Like Any Other Quality Management Process
Someone rightly observed: "All code is guilty, until proven innocent." Ask the members of any software development team, and they will agree that tracking...
FreedomYUG: GPL v4 — A New Decade of Delight
Fresh Thinking on Freedom in the 21st Century.
Within days, your life is going to be touched by the next ten years of the new...