283 blog results for "General Public License"

Microsoft is now offering support for MySQL, which should give pause to every open-source company that expects to make money through support subscriptions.

Posted in The Open Road by Matt Asay

HDMI Licensing releases guidelines that enforce meaningful labeling to different versions of HDMI cables.

Posted in Crave by Dong Ngo

Microsoft confirms that a tool intended to allow Netbooks to more easily move to the new operating system was based in-part, and unintentionally, on open-source code.

Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried

Intel's giving nearly 10 percent of its cash hoard to its top rival so it doesn't risk an even bigger payment. It's also hoping to ease other antitrust cases.

Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland

AMD drops its litigation while Intel agrees to "abide by" a long list of prohibitions. And renewed patent cross-license agreement frees AMD to spin off chip manufacturing.

Posted in News - Business Tech by Stephen Shankland

Software giant takes down tool aimed at making it easier to put Windows 7 on Netbooks after blogger raises question about whether the software improperly uses open-source code.

Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried

As cheap, powerful automatic cameras and camera phones proliferate, the music industry--and its sports counterpart--have had to realize they can't control fans' ability to take pictures.

Posted in Geek Gestalt by Daniel Terdiman

The open-source Drupal package now is used to power WhiteHouse.gov. But please don't conflate open source and open governance.

Posted in Deep Tech by Stephen Shankland

As a deadline in the Google Books saga looms, the project may be just beginning as Google confronts more restrictive copyright laws around the world.

Posted in Relevant Results by Tom Krazit

The world's largest phone maker accuses Apple of violating intellectual property it owns governing handset wireless connectivity.

Posted in Circuit Breaker by Erica Ogg