Eben Moglen, the attorney for the Free Software Foundation, said he is stepping down from its board now that the General Public License version 3 is near completion. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

The new version of the GNU software license, which will be nailed down during a two-year modification process, will be called GPLv3. A first stab at the new license, dubbed a discussion draft, will be ...

A lost dog's best friend: that's how Amazon-subsidiary Ring tried to position itself with its 2026 Super Bowl commercial.

"We decided to bring RMS back because we missed his wisdom," the FSF board said Monday. Mozilla and Tor join calls to oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation More than 1,500 people have ...

When Richard Stallman created the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in 1985, it was organized around a radical idea: Software should be free, not just as in free of charge, but free as in the concept of ...

Would you believe that almost all of the technology you use today is here because of a misbehaving printer? Believe it. In the early 1980s, an MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory programmer named ...

The non-profit defender of software freedom has raised questions about the fairness, legitimacy, and legality of GitHub’s AI-driven coding assistant. GitHub Copilot, a Visual Studio Code extension ...

After several years of debate and more than 18 months of sometimes passionate public comments and revisions, the latest GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) software license will officially be ...

Richard Stallman, the grand old man of open source software and current president of the Free Software Foundation, is calling Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux “spyware” and calling on the open source ...