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Major Players Roll Up Sleeves to Solve Open Source Licensing Problems

2017-11-30 20:18:53| TechNewsWorld

Four big tech players this week moved to improve their handling of open source software licensing violations. Red Hat, Google, Facebook and IBM said they would apply error standards in GNU GPLv3 to all of their open source licensing, even licenses granted under older GPL agreements. "This will make everything consistent with GPLv3," said IP attorney Lawrence Rosen.

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