SAN FRANCISCO — Decrying the proliferation of open source license varieties, a Hewlett-Packard executive on Tuesday urged IBM and Sun Microsystems to abandon their own licenses and back the GNU GPL ...
With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...
As open source software (OSS) is continually utilized across industries, the legal landscape surrounding its use has grown ...
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Redis, the company behind the popular value-key database of the same name, has returned its main system to an open source license, although the move failed to satisfy some critics.… Adding the GNU ...
Over the last few years, companies like Redis, Elastic, MongoDB, and HashiCorp have abandoned their open-source license roots and switched to proprietary models. However, there is one significant ...
Facebook, Google, IBM, and Red Hat today announced they’re going to provide greater legal protection for some of the open source code they license. The companies committed to extend more rights to ...
February 28, 2024 - Over the last few decades open source software has become ubiquitous, and is the foundation of numerous products and services. However, Web3 is likely the first sector to be built ...
In an effort to foster binary-translation research, IBM has placed the latest version of its own work on the Web with a GNU-like open-source license. Akin to the code that makes the Caruso ...
Open Source License Management Becomes Seamless Part of the Software Development Process Protecode Inc., an innovative provider of open source license management solutions, today announced its ...
A small software startup will make its debut at LinuxWorld next week by rolling out a package it believes can help developers manage and mitigate the intellectual property risks of reusing and mixing ...