| Date / Time |
Story |
| Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:12PM |
Apple Releases Swift As an Open-Source Project |
| Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:15PM |
Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK |
| Saturday March 26, 2016 @09:06AM |
Patent That Cost Microsoft Millions Gets Invalidated |
| Wednesday March 23, 2016 @09:19PM |
Red Hat Becomes First $2 Billion Open-Source Company |
| Monday March 21, 2016 @09:15AM |
Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL |
| Sunday March 20, 2016 @10:22AM |
Studio Ghibli Animation Software Going "Open Source"; Details Pending |
| Friday March 18, 2016 @10:47AM |
NY Bill Would Provide Tax Credit For Open Source Contributors |
| Thursday March 17, 2016 @11:38PM |
Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There's an Elephant In the Room |
| Monday March 14, 2016 @08:46AM |
Obama Administration Supports Recycling Code and Open Source |
| Wednesday March 09, 2016 @02:34PM |
Microsoft Releases First Public Preview of RTVS Under MIT and GPLv2 Licenses |
| Friday March 04, 2016 @09:34AM |
MAME Released Under OSI-Compliant, FSF-Approved License |
| Monday February 29, 2016 @10:58AM |
Ebay Shop Scrapes Thingiverse, Sells Designs In Violation of Creative Commons |
| Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:46PM |
Software Freedom Conservancy: Distributing Linux With ZFS Is Illegal |
| Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:27PM |
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Shelved OSS Project Fixes? |
| Thursday February 18, 2016 @01:28AM |
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS To Have Official Support For ZFS File System |
| Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:18PM |
The Way VCs Think About Open Source: Mostly Wrong |
| Wednesday February 10, 2016 @05:38PM |
AWS Terms of Service Offer a Break If Zombie Apocalypse Occurs |
| Sunday January 31, 2016 @12:12PM |
GNU Hurd Begins Supporting Sound, Still Working On 64-bit & USB Support |
| Friday January 15, 2016 @10:03PM |
Geoblocking, Licensing, and Piracy Make For Tough Choices at Netflix |
| Wednesday January 06, 2016 @04:30PM |
CBS, Others Sued For Copyright Infringement Over "Soft Kitty" In Big Bang Theory |
| Saturday December 12, 2015 @01:23PM |
UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own |
| Thursday December 10, 2015 @10:25AM |
Bruce Perens On Problems With the Open Hardware Model |
| Thursday December 10, 2015 @08:49AM |
Microsoft Open Sources and Forks Windows Live Writer Into Open Live Writer |
| Thursday November 26, 2015 @03:25PM |
Software Freedom Conservancy Asks For Supporters |
| Saturday November 14, 2015 @04:21AM |
Microsoft Open Sources Its Machine Learning Toolkit |
| Thursday November 12, 2015 @01:49PM |
Paper Retracted After Anti-Immigrant Scientist Bans Use of His Software |
| Thursday November 12, 2015 @10:10AM |
How One Company Is Bringing Old Video Games Back From the Dead |
| Tuesday October 27, 2015 @12:11PM |
MAME Emulating a Sonic the Hedgehog Popcorn Machine |
| Friday October 16, 2015 @07:38AM |
Beware of Oracle's Licensing 'Traps,' Law Firm Warns |
| Thursday October 08, 2015 @05:10PM |
Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux |
| Tuesday September 15, 2015 @08:41AM |
Arrangement With Science Publisher Raises Questions About Wikipedia's Commitment To Open Access |
| Tuesday September 08, 2015 @08:14AM |
Mozilla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Others Form 'Alliance For Open Media' |
| Friday August 14, 2015 @06:54PM |
Commodore Smartphone Hits Trademark Opposition |
| Friday July 31, 2015 @06:53PM |
Windows 10 Upgrade Strategies, Pitfalls and Fixes As MSFT Servers Are Hit Hard |
| Saturday July 25, 2015 @09:49PM |
HEVC Advance Announces H.265 Royalty Rates, Raises Some Hackles |
| Friday July 24, 2015 @05:59PM |
Ask Slashdot: Building an Open Source Community For a Proprietary Software Product? |
| Thursday July 16, 2015 @06:57AM |
The Free Software Foundation's Statement On Canonical's Updated Licensing Terms |
| Thursday July 02, 2015 @03:58PM |
Microsoft Research Open Sources WorldWide Telescope |
| Tuesday June 16, 2015 @09:48AM |
Apple Will Pay More To Streaming Music Producers Than Spotify -- But Not Yet |
| Thursday May 14, 2015 @08:49AM |
Wireless Charging Tech Adopted By Ford, Chrysler, and Toyota Goes Open Source |
| Wednesday May 06, 2015 @03:04PM |
Why Was Linux the Kernel That Succeeded? |
| Friday April 17, 2015 @05:55PM |
Microsoft Pushes For Public Education Funding While Avoiding State Taxes |
| Tuesday April 14, 2015 @09:36AM |
Legislation Would Force Radio Stations To Pay Royalties |
| Thursday April 09, 2015 @11:47AM |
The New Struggles Facing Open Source |
| Tuesday March 31, 2015 @10:26AM |
License Details Hint MS Undecided On Suing Users of Its Open Source Net Runtime |
| Friday March 20, 2015 @06:50PM |
Taxi Companies Sue Uber For False Advertising On Safety |
| Wednesday March 18, 2015 @04:41PM |
Microsoft Offers Pirates Amnesty and Free Windows 10 Upgrades |
| Thursday March 05, 2015 @01:21PM |
Software Freedom Conservancy Funds GPL Suit Against VMWare |
| Tuesday February 03, 2015 @05:08PM |
Hundreds Apply For FAA Drone Licenses |
| Sunday January 25, 2015 @01:13PM |
Why We Still Can't Really Put Anything In the Public Domain |
| Tuesday December 16, 2014 @09:32AM |
The GPLv2 Goes To Court |
| Saturday December 13, 2014 @07:45PM |
Proposed Theme Park Would Put BBC Shows On Display |
| Tuesday November 18, 2014 @12:36PM |
Crowdfunded Linux Voice Magazine Releases First Issue CC-BY-SA |
| Sunday September 07, 2014 @11:59AM |
Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx |
| Saturday September 06, 2014 @09:23AM |
DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins |
| Tuesday August 12, 2014 @01:06PM |
Larry Rosen: A Case Study In Understanding (and Enforcing) the GPL |
| Monday August 11, 2014 @08:21AM |
Parallax Completes Open Hardware Vision With Open Source CPU |
| Thursday August 07, 2014 @09:31AM |
Microsoft's Olivier Bloch Explains Microsoft Open Source (Video) |
| Thursday July 31, 2014 @01:21PM |
Fotopedia Is Shutting Down; Data Avallable Until August 10 |
| Tuesday June 24, 2014 @12:11PM |
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Ensure Creative Commons Compliance At Your Company? |
| Thursday May 29, 2014 @08:33AM |
Wikia and Sony Playing Licensing Mind Tricks |
| Monday May 19, 2014 @03:25PM |
California Bill Would Safeguard Consumers' Rights To Criticize Firms Online |
| Thursday May 15, 2014 @12:46PM |
Ask Slashdot: Easy-To-Use Alternative To MS Access For a Charity's Database? |
| Tuesday May 06, 2014 @07:57AM |
Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions |
| Friday April 18, 2014 @06:38PM |
Plant Breeders Release 'Open Source Seeds' |
| Thursday March 27, 2014 @12:42PM |
In Israel, Class-Action Plaintiff Requests Waze Source Code Under GPL |
| Sunday March 09, 2014 @09:41AM |
Google Blocking Asus's Android-Windows "Duet"? |
| Tuesday February 18, 2014 @10:08AM |
FLOSS Codecs Emerge Victorious In Wikimedia Vote |
| Thursday February 13, 2014 @01:08PM |
Google Apps License Forbids Forking, Promotes Google Services |
| Tuesday February 11, 2014 @09:23AM |
Godot Game Engine Released Under MIT License |
| Friday January 17, 2014 @08:19AM |
Wikimedia Community Debates H.264 Support On Wikipedia Sites. |
| Friday December 27, 2013 @08:09PM |
Sherlock Holmes Finally In the Public Domain In the US |
| Saturday December 21, 2013 @12:26PM |
DoD Public Domain Archive To Be Privatized, Locked Up For 10 Years |
| Wednesday December 04, 2013 @08:29AM |
Spotify's Own Math Suggests Musicians Are Still Getting Hosed |
| Thursday November 28, 2013 @06:09PM |
Creative Commons Launches Version 4.0 of Its Licenses |
| Thursday November 14, 2013 @05:57PM |
POV-Ray Is Now FLOSS |
| Thursday November 14, 2013 @03:52PM |
Google Books Case Dismissed On Fair Use Grounds |
| Tuesday October 22, 2013 @08:30AM |
The Dark Mod 2.0 Standalone: Id Tech 4 GPL Yields a Free Thief-a-Like Game |
| Thursday September 19, 2013 @02:04PM |
Meet the Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy (Video) |
| Tuesday July 30, 2013 @11:27AM |
German Court Finds Fantec Responsible For GPL Violation On Third-Party Code |
| Saturday July 27, 2013 @05:53PM |
Fidus Writer: Open Source Collaborative Editor For Non-Geek Academics |
| Wednesday July 24, 2013 @09:16AM |
MediaNet Sued for Licensing Unlicensed Songs |
| Monday July 22, 2013 @09:15PM |
Copyright Drama Reaches 3D Printing World |
| Wednesday July 17, 2013 @04:24AM |
Github Finally Agrees Public Repos Should Have Explicit Licenses |
| Wednesday July 03, 2013 @09:18PM |
MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay |
| Wednesday June 26, 2013 @11:52AM |
Monty Suggests a Business-Friendly License That Trends Open |
| Thursday June 13, 2013 @11:26AM |
Learn About the FRDCSA 'Weak AI' Project (Video) |
| Saturday May 18, 2013 @01:48AM |
Happy Culture Freedom Day! |
| Tuesday April 30, 2013 @09:41AM |
CERN Celebrates 20 Years of an Open Web (and Rebuilds 1st Web Page) |
| Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:50AM |
Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed |
| Thursday April 04, 2013 @08:42AM |
Activision, Raven Release 2 Star Wars Games Under GPL |
| Thursday March 28, 2013 @06:49PM |
What Does It Actually Cost To Publish a Scientific Paper? |
| Thursday March 21, 2013 @10:58AM |
Open-Xchange Launches "Open Source" Browser-Based Office Suite |
| Saturday February 23, 2013 @07:32PM |
Open Source Emoji Project Wants Money For Icons |
| Thursday February 14, 2013 @09:59AM |
Brazilians Can Now Buy an "iPhone" Loaded With Android |
| Friday February 08, 2013 @08:23AM |
Researchers Opt To Limit Uses of Open-access Publications |
| Thursday January 31, 2013 @01:44PM |
How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry |
| Friday January 25, 2013 @10:06PM |
Does Microsoft Have the Best App Store For Open Source Developers? |
| Friday January 25, 2013 @08:20PM |
Jonathan Coulton Song Used By Glee Without Permission |
| Friday January 04, 2013 @08:23PM |
The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software |
| Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:41AM |
Adobe EULA Demands 7000 Years a Day From Humankind |
| Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:21AM |
Adobe demands 7000 years a day from humankind |
| Tuesday December 04, 2012 @05:12AM |
Microsoft Steeply Raising Enterprise Licensing Fees |
| Saturday December 01, 2012 @01:39PM |
Half of GitHub Code Unsafe To Use (If You Want Open Source) |
| Wednesday November 21, 2012 @11:27AM |
Media Center Key Accidentally Gives Pirates Free Windows 8 Pro License |
| Wednesday November 14, 2012 @10:27PM |
Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code |
| Wednesday October 24, 2012 @03:19PM |
ARM Code for Raspberry Pi Goes Open Source (Video) |
| Thursday October 18, 2012 @02:27PM |
Eben Moglen Explains Freedom and Free Software in Two Video Interviews |
| Thursday October 11, 2012 @03:21PM |
Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF |
| Sunday September 30, 2012 @08:41AM |
Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon |
| Saturday September 22, 2012 @09:28PM |
XBian's Koenkk Replies To the XBian/RaspBMC Flap |
| Friday September 21, 2012 @08:05PM |
GPL Kerfuffle Takes Xbian For Raspberry Pi Offline |
| Friday September 14, 2012 @06:35PM |
Red Hat Fights Patent Troll With GPL |
| Monday September 03, 2012 @11:17AM |
Bruce Willis Considering Legal Action Against Apple Over iTunes Collection |
| Monday August 27, 2012 @05:59PM |
Creative Commons Urged To Drop Non-Free Clauses In CC 4.0 |
| Tuesday August 21, 2012 @08:37AM |
Windows 8 Gets Personal Use License For Homebuilt PCs |
| Thursday August 09, 2012 @04:44PM |
Craigslist drops exclusive license to your posts |
| Wednesday August 01, 2012 @11:46AM |
Craigslist Demands Exclusivity For Postings |
| Wednesday July 25, 2012 @11:05AM |
Netflix Latest Earnings Report Shows Trouble |
| Thursday July 19, 2012 @08:56AM |
MIPS Technologies Porting Android 4.1 to MIPS Architecture |
| Friday July 06, 2012 @06:01PM |
Ubuntu Can't Trust FSF's Secure Boot Solution |
| Wednesday June 20, 2012 @09:59AM |
Locked-Down Tablets Endanger FLOSS For End Users |
| Sunday June 03, 2012 @10:27AM |
Why the GPL Licensing Cops Are the Good Guys |
| Wednesday May 30, 2012 @08:33PM |
SFC Expands GPL Compliance Efforts To Samba, Linux, and Other Projects |
| Saturday April 21, 2012 @10:11PM |
Open Source Project Licenses Trending Toward Open Rather than Free |
| Tuesday March 20, 2012 @12:49PM |
CEO of TuCloud Dares Microsoft To Sue His New Company |
| Monday March 19, 2012 @05:20PM |
CEO of tuCloud dares Microsoft to Sue his New Company |
| Wednesday March 07, 2012 @04:41PM |
Ask Slashdot - The legality of licensing extorsion? |
| Tuesday February 14, 2012 @06:15PM |
Massive mining company dumps Vmware and Cisco |
| Thursday February 02, 2012 @04:50PM |
How Far Should GPL Enforcement Go? |
| Thursday February 02, 2012 @11:55AM |
German Appeals Court Confirms Galaxy Tab 10.1 Ban |
| Tuesday January 24, 2012 @07:14PM |
Apple's iBooks EULA Drawing Ire |
| Monday January 09, 2012 @03:21PM |
WURFL Founders Fire Off DMCA Takedown Against Fork |
| Friday January 06, 2012 @04:21PM |
Mozilla Public License 2.0 Released |
| Sunday December 18, 2011 @10:25AM |
Canonical To Remove Sun Java From Repositories, Users' Machines |
| Saturday December 17, 2011 @01:35PM |
GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast |
| Saturday December 17, 2011 @10:29AM |
PCMCIA Computer Project Aims Even Higher (and Cheaper) Than Raspberry Pi |
| Tuesday December 13, 2011 @11:44AM |
Windows 8 Store Will Allow Open Source Apps |
| Saturday December 10, 2011 @08:50AM |
Royalty-Free MPEG Video Proposals Announced |
| Friday December 02, 2011 @06:45PM |
The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix |
| Sunday November 20, 2011 @10:27AM |
Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing |
| Thursday November 17, 2011 @03:23PM |
EULAs Don't Have To Suck |
| Tuesday November 15, 2011 @01:01PM |
Barnes & Noble Names Microsoft's Disputed Android Patents |
| Thursday November 10, 2011 @02:34PM |
Lawyer Continues Android v. GPL Crusade |
| Friday November 04, 2011 @05:23PM |
Ask Slashdot: When and How To Deal With GPL Violations? |
| Saturday October 22, 2011 @09:39AM |
Tipping Point For Open Access CS Research? |
| Saturday October 08, 2011 @09:49AM |
Ask Slashdot: Which License For School Products? |
| Sunday August 14, 2011 @01:15PM |
Hamstersoft Ebook App Rips Off GPL3 Code, Say Calibre Devs |
| Friday August 12, 2011 @11:06PM |
Motorola To Collect Royalties For Android |
| Saturday August 06, 2011 @09:20AM |
After Complaints, VMware Revises VSphere 5 Licensing |
| Thursday August 04, 2011 @06:23PM |
VMware Revises Controversial vSphere 5 Licensing |
| Monday August 01, 2011 @07:01PM |
Ask Slashdot: Using Code With an Expired Patent? |
| Sunday July 31, 2011 @11:56PM |
What Do I Do About My Ex-Employer Stealing My Free Code? |
| Friday July 29, 2011 @06:23PM |
Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009 |
| Friday July 22, 2011 @07:45PM |
PayPal Joins London Police Effort |
| Monday July 11, 2011 @10:32AM |
DisplayPort-To-HDMI Cables May Be Recalled Over Licensing |
| Sunday July 10, 2011 @12:15AM |
Debian, SFLC Publish Patent Advice For Community Distros |
| Thursday July 07, 2011 @02:29PM |
Ask Slashdot: Open Patent Licenses? |
| Friday July 01, 2011 @06:46PM |
Does Creative Commons Work With Pseudonymity? |
| Wednesday June 29, 2011 @02:43PM |
World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified |
| Tuesday June 21, 2011 @04:32AM |
Court Case To Test GNU GPL |
| Monday June 20, 2011 @05:16PM |
The Ugly State of ARM Support On Linux |
| Tuesday June 07, 2011 @07:05AM |
Russian President: Time To Reform Copyright |
| Thursday May 26, 2011 @06:25PM |
FSF On How To Choose a License |
| Monday May 23, 2011 @07:07PM |
Are Third-Party Android Vendors Violating the GPL? |
| Monday May 09, 2011 @08:03PM |
Apple Delays Release of LGPL WebKit Code |
| Monday May 09, 2011 @03:26AM |
Portugal to Make CC Licences Illegal? |
| Tuesday April 19, 2011 @10:08PM |
GPL Violations By D-Link and Boxee |
| Thursday March 31, 2011 @09:08PM |
FSF Suggests That Google Free Gmail Javascript |
| Thursday March 31, 2011 @01:38PM |
Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License |
| Friday March 25, 2011 @08:11PM |
100% Libre, Trisquel 4.5 STS 'Slaine' Released |
| Thursday March 24, 2011 @01:08PM |
Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 |
| Sunday March 20, 2011 @11:29AM |
RMS On Header Files and Derivative Works |
| Sunday February 20, 2011 @10:21PM |
Australian Telco Telstra Complies With GPL |
| Saturday January 01, 2011 @10:26PM |
Most Android Tablets Fail At GPL Compliance |
| Tuesday November 09, 2010 @01:06PM |
Oracle To Monetize Java VM |
| Tuesday November 02, 2010 @01:31PM |
VLC Developer Takes a Stand Against DRM Enforcement |
| Thursday October 21, 2010 @04:56PM |
In Florida, a Cell Phone Network With No Need For a Spectrum License |
| Tuesday August 31, 2010 @08:05PM |
'Free' H.264 a Precursor To WebM Patent War? |
| Sunday August 29, 2010 @11:46AM |
Microsoft's Security Development Process Under CC License |
| Friday August 27, 2010 @03:21AM |
Glibc Is Finally Free Software |
| Thursday August 26, 2010 @10:46PM |
Czech copyright may limit licensing. |
| Thursday August 05, 2010 @10:20AM |
Software Freedom Conservancy Wins GPL Case Against Westinghouse |
| Wednesday August 04, 2010 @03:38PM |
CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source |
| Wednesday July 28, 2010 @02:54PM |
What To Do About CC License Violations? |
| Wednesday July 28, 2010 @10:12AM |
If Oracle Bought Every Open Source Company |
| Friday July 23, 2010 @11:21AM |
WordPress Creator GPL Says WP Template Must Be GPL'd |
| Sunday July 18, 2010 @06:07PM |
Remix This Game — a Free Software Experiment |
| Friday July 02, 2010 @12:08AM |
Qualcomm Makes Open-Source 3D Snapdragon Driver |
| Friday June 25, 2010 @07:46PM |
Open Source Complaint Against IBM Gets Support |
| Thursday June 17, 2010 @04:07PM |
Bluecherry Releases GPL'd MPEG-4 Driver |
| Wednesday June 09, 2010 @03:44AM |
U of CA may boycott Nature Publishing Group |
| Tuesday June 01, 2010 @09:36AM |
Do Build Environments Give Companies an End Run Around the GPL? |
| Thursday May 27, 2010 @06:07PM |
European Open Source Decision surfaces |
| Wednesday May 26, 2010 @03:59PM |
FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go |
| Tuesday May 25, 2010 @05:44PM |
Why We Still Need OSI |
| Thursday May 20, 2010 @05:58PM |
Your License to Kill Is Hereby Revoked |
| Wednesday May 19, 2010 @07:03PM |
Would You Die To Respect a Software License? |
| Friday April 16, 2010 @09:22PM |
Checking For GPL Compliance, When the Code Is Embedded |
| Friday April 09, 2010 @06:32PM |
BlackBerry Maker To Buy QNX For RTOS & Dev. Suite |
