Software Freedom Conservancy, the only organization actively engaged in General Public License (GPL) enforcement and compliance work for Linux, announces today a new strategy toward improving compliance and the freedom of users of devices that contain Linux-based systems. The new work has received an initial grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC).

TL;DR Landmark case Entr’ouvert vs Orange, after 9 years of legal battle, the copyright court (TGI Paris) found the GPL license to be inapplicable and dismissed the case. Read the judgment as…

Is the GNU GPL “dying” or is that just the prejudice of those whose open source exploitation would be hampered by its use? At the huge FOSDEM developer meetup in Brussels in early Febru…