Hold Liable Must Include Original State Changes Disclose Source Include License Include Copyright Include Install Instructions Check out FOSSA's blog for a more in-depth overview of the GNU General Public License v3 (GPL-3) Open Source Software Licenses 101: GPL v3...
use of Marlin, a GPLv3 licensed firmware that runs (in some form or another) a large majority of desktop 3D printers. But as explained in the blog post, Printed Solid has grown tired with the manufacturer’s back and forth promises to comply with the viral aspects of the GPL license. ...
See what the popular copyleft open source software license GPL v2 requires, allows, and prohibits of users.
In this 3.5 minute video, Linus Torvalds talks about why digital rights management and the General Public License cause a lot of "hot air" to be exchanged but do not amount to a "big deal". During Linux.conf.au in Sydney earlier this week, Torvalds said that both DRM technology and GP...
the license. Unfortunately, I'm told GPLv2 is vulnerable to this particular deal. Also remember that it's not enough for Microsoft or anyone else to have patents that might be used to impose restrictions on others' exercise of their rights for the GPL to say you can't distribute the ...
> As for the right to run the program, I've also explained why in > Brazilian copyright law this is a right granted by the license, > because the license says that right is unrestricted. > > Kaboom! No, the license says that it does not address the right to run a ...
Almost two years ago, the FSF started work on the first update of the GNU GPL in over a decade. A last-minute hitch, though, iskeeping the license from appearing. According to Peter Brown, the FSF’s executive director,“We continue to work on the details of the GPLv3 as it relates...
Then they would need some patent licensing deal, effectively terminating their right to distributing that particular software if it is licensed under the GPLv3. Well, it wouldn’t be the end of the world for them. They could easily re-license any GPLv3-licensed software they’ve written ...
believe is a good thing. If the license tried to enforce usability, i.e. "continued functioning of the modified object code is in no case prevented or interfered with", then any time a new release of the program causes a regression for some users this would be a license ...
I think GPLv3 is also easy to understand. As a normal person you just have to follow this spirit: “The license gives me the 4 freedoms defined by FSF and by everything i do i have to take care that all my recipients will get the same 4 freedoms. I can’t remove this freedoms in...