(1) Software that is free of charge. See freeware. (2) Software that is free of restrictions and which may be free of charge. Free software licenses grant users the freedom to use it for any purpose, ...

A license for distributing software that complies with the philosophy of the Free Software Foundation. See free software. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...

The spread of free software and the subsequent promotion of its use by governments throughout the world is a fascinating phenomenon. Many countries currently are considering laws in which free ...

The free software foundation said on Tuesday it would start adapting rules for development and use of free software by including penalties against those who patent software or use anti-piracy ...

RMS is still well known in free software and open-source circles for his work. He first built his reputation by taking James Gosling's Emacs text editor and relicensing it under GNU Public License ...

Free software licenses function in a number of different ways. First, they are a statement of rules about what free software programmers can and cannot do within their own communities. Part of the ...

A federal appeals court has overruled a lower court ruling that, if sustained, would have severely hampered the enforceability of free software licenses. The lower court had found that redistributing ...

The issue of compliance is forever on the minds of IT executives, and even more so in the last 10 years, due to increased audit activities by software vendors, complex licensing rules and the ...