Some ancient source code given away freely by Sun in 1984 turned out to have a non-free-software license all these years, upsetting the licensing purity of glibc and everything built with it. This may ...

Does Steam selling games with DRM in the free and open source environment of GNU/Linux defeat the entire point? That's what Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU operating system and Free Software ...

The GNU movement’s founder doesn’t like the idea of DRM on an open-source platform. Recently, Valve’s Gabe Newell claimed that gaming would help to bring Linux into the mainstream, and announced his ...

The free software movement has come a long way in forty years. We want to take a moment to thank the people and projects who have helped bring us to this point, and ask for your support in the decades ...

Richard Stallman, founder of the Boston-based Free Software Foundation, has created a new version of his GNU General Public License, or GPL, under which many free software programs are distributed.