A California Superior Court appears to have recently answered a longstanding question in the open-source software community and in providing that answer, gave television manufacturer Vizio clarity.

The GNU General Public License (GPL) is a type of open source license that allows modification and redistribution of code. GPLv2, the initial version 2 of the GPL released in 1991, stipulates that the ...

Google finally entered the mobile software market by turning the 2005 acquisition of Android into the Open Handset Alliance. Google hopes to promote third-party mobile software development and foster ...

After pulling a Windows 7 download tool from the Microsoft Store because it violated a number of GNU General Public License (GPL) terms, Microsoft has reposted an altered version of it-- and is making ...