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 ...

We’ve seen a bunch of efforts to develop free and open source smartphone operating systems over the past decade. But most have relied on at least some proprietary drivers and other software – even on ...

The Free Software Foundation has decided to work on making a fully free version of Android after decades of focusing on PC computing. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced the Librephone ...

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 ...

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 ...

Company agrees to appoint a director to ensure that its Linksys products comply with the terms of free software licenses Cisco Systems will appoint a director to ensure that its Linksys products ...

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 ...

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 ...