Software as a service (SaaS) entered the IT landscape in 2000 and has revolutionized the deployment models of many software companies and even entire industries, such as Internet search. It has also becoming an increasingly popular form of consuming applications within enterprises of all shapes, sizes and geographies.
Read more »AGPLv3 Keeps Open Source Vibrant in Age of SaaS
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Creative Commons promotes standard license expression
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If Creative Commons (CC) has any say in the matter, the Web will soon have a standard machine-readable notation for licenses. Named the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL), the notation has been under development for the last few years, partly with the cooperation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3).
Read more »Microsoft gouging Brazilians for 20 percent of income
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Ever wonder why Brazil and other BRIC countries are so hot on open source, including Linux? Gustavo Duarte gives several reasons, not the least of which is the punitive pricing that Microsoft inflicts on these developing markets.
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Ubuntu launchpad for Affero?
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The controversial Affero general public license could get an unexpected boost from Ubuntu developer Canonical. Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's chief executive, has said AGPL is "a strong candidate" for the eventual open source release of Launchpad, Canonical's developer collaboration tool.
Read more »Google's festering problem with the AGPL
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Google apparently likes open source that lets it "borrow" open-source software while giving comparatively little back, and always on Google's terms.
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New license logos
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"Let users know they're protected by GNU licenses. Have you released some software under one of the new GNU licenses? If so, you might be interested in our license logos..."
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GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability
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If you haven’t been living under a rock the past decade (I suppose Stonehenge qualifies) you may have walked in on some incarnation of the famous GPL vs BSD flamewar. It’s up there with the most famous flamewars (now *there’s* a research question for a brimming sociology student!) of our beloved Internet society.
Read more »Going online, public TV chooses different licensing paths
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On Wednesday German public TV broadcaster NDR launched a pilot service offering free internet access to selected TV news and satire content, apparently under a "no derivatives" Creative Commons license.
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Closing open source loopholes
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Say what you want about GPLv3, but the update to the most popular open source software license continues to close loopholes that have been used to avoid sharing source code, patent protection and other freedoms that the authors intended. Still, we have yet to see whether this closes off any appeal of the GPL and even open source in general for vendors, developers and users.
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Is Xming Another Example of Misunderstanding Libre Licenses?
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Xming appears to be a useful program for accessing and running your GNU/Linux applications remotely from a Windows computer. It is licensed under the GPLv2. But just how free is it, really?
Read more »GPLv3, bug fixes, and complexity
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After an interesting free software licensing event in Helsinki, I got thinking about licence complexity. At the conference, people had two types of questions (a) Why didn't GPLv3 additionally solve X problem? and (b) Why is it so long?
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World Series hype, GPLv3 adoption increase in October
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What can the World Series and the General Public License (GPL) possibly have in common?
Read more »I Was Wrong: Microsoft Won
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I could feel it in my bones: the great victory of the EU over MS is a sham. Here's why.
Read more »Predicting Open Source Licensing
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What's the most popular open source license currently in use? If you said GPL you would be right. But how did you know?
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Microsoft Posts the New License Terms for Interoperability in the EU Agreement - Updated
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Microsoft has now posted the revised licenses for interoperability as a result of the EU antitrust agreement. Microsoft calls them the Microsoft Work Group Server Protocol Program License Agreements for Development and Product Distribution (WSPP Development Agreements). I don't know why they can't come up with better names. Probably for the same reason the Zune is brown.
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