Linus says no to GPLv3, Jan 26, 2006

Torvalds says that the Linux kernel "in general" has always been covered under version 2 of the GPL, and that that isn't going to change.

IBM has released the source code of its Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) technology to the open source community.

At the ceremony for the 2005 Free Software Awards, Richard Stallman presented Andrew Tridgell with the award for the advancement of free software.

Novell Inc. and Concurrent Computer Corp. said yesterday that they will jointly sell and support a real-time version of Novell's SUSE Linux operating system aimed at banks and telecommunications providers.

Marketing professionals rate Firefox a more influential brand than eBay or Sony

The Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed that it is working on a large content management system based on the open source application server Zope.

John "Maddog" Hall will consider parallels between open source software and music, addressing the risk that patents "kill off ideas instead of promoting them" at this year's Australasian Linux conference, to be held in Dunedin this week.

While identifying Microsoft as the source of most IT security vulnerabilities, respondents to a SearchOpenSource.com survey also found holes in Linux and open source software (OSS) security.

I'm writing this brief article to point out that there really is a lot of monkeying around in the world of software licensing.

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