Tag: GPL

Later today Sun Microsystems is expected to release the source code to its Java platforms after years of speculation and urging by the open source community. Unlike Solaris and J2EE, which were released under the Common Development and Distribution License, Sun has opted to release the source code for Java Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) and Mobile Edition (J2ME) under the venerable GPL. It will ...

Last week CACE Technologies, creator of the WinPcap packet capture utility, announced its hiring of Gerald Colms, creator of the immensely popular Ethereal network analyzer software. Along with Colms came Ethereal itself, and CACE has rebranded the tools as Wireshark. Wireshark is still a multi-platform, open source team, and CACE's FAQ calls it "almost (but not quite) a fork," because Colms has ...

I put a question at the end of that title because I'm not sure if this is really kosher or not. Let your conscience be your guide. It's pretty obvious that, using p2p, you can get the Pro version of LimeWire (or nearly any other app) for free. But using the GPL to allow for the pro version to download for free anyway? Pretty obvious as well, since the pro version is open source, you could just ...

Linus Torvalds, creator of the most famous GPL software project ever, has stated on several occasions that the Linux kernel will never be released under GPLv3, the next version of the GNU General Public License currently under development. NewsForge has rounded up a couple of Torvalds' posts to the Linux Kernel Mailing List in which he describes some of his objections to the new version of the ...

As reported last month, this year will see the first update of the GNU General Public License—the license employed by, depending on who you ask, half to three-fourths of all free software—since 1991, and the Free Software Foundation has posted the first draft of the new GPLv3. It's no easy read, but luckily there's a Rationale Document that describes all of the changes in the new ...

While Forrester might have its pick, the folks at Electric Mail are choosing ClamAV for the bulk of their AntiVirus needs. Granted, it isn't designed to do all the things McAfee's suite does, but when it comes to the speed in which it detects virus-laden email, apparently ClamAV is the fastest. Why should this matter? Well Electric Rain happens to provide email service to a bunch of folks, and I'm ...