Linux kernel developer Christoph Hellwig has ended his legal fight against cloud computing and platform virtualisation software and services company VMware, over alleged violation of the GNU General ...

VMWare, the virtualization software maker, is apparently facing a lawsuit for violating the GPLv2 free software license for years by using Linux and other source code in ESXi. Christoph Hellwig, Linux ...

Virtualization software maker VMware is facing a lawsuit alleging that it has been violating the GPLv2 free software license for years with its use of Linux and other source code in ESXi. Linux kernel ...

Linus Torvalds would accept code for programming the kernel in Rust, even if the maintainer of the relevant part of Linux blocked its inclusion. However, the founder and lead developer of the kernel ...

The Software Freedom Conservancy earlier this month announced that it was funding a lawsuit filed by Linux kernel developer Christoph Hellwig against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Germany ...

According to the SFC (Software Freedom Conservancy), a nonprofit organization hosting a variety of open source projects, VMware is facing a legal battle. The SFC claims VMware is using the Linux ...

UPDATE (3/16/2015): VMware-Hellwig Dispute is about Linux kernel code. In my research regarding the Hellwig-VMware dispute, many signs pointed towards difficulty surrounding copyrights Hellwig asserts ...