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The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced it will hold two legal summits over the next 12 months.
Black Duck Software recently published some summary statistics about free and open source software license adoption. Any of these conclusions might be reasonable if the 5% figure was meaningful, but Black Duck has given us no reason to believe it is; if anything, their own statements suggest it isn't.
The LiMo Foundation added Adobe, Else Ltd., MobiTV, and SRS Labs as new members to its open source Linux mobile phone consortium. The foundation also announced the "imminent availability" of the new R3 release of the LiMo Platform, adding location-based services (LBS) and contact management features.
Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, marked the first anniversary of the release of version three of the open source GNU General Public License (GPLv3) with a study of trends in its use.
Microsoft announced on Friday that it would be joining the Apache Software Foundation, one of the leading organizations in the open-source world. Microsoft became a platinum sponsor of the ASF, which costs $100,000/year and is the highest level of sponsorship that the foundation offers.
The Linux Foundation has announced that compliance and IP management specialist Palamida has become its newest member. Palamida will collaborate on and contribute to the non-profit organisation's new Open Compliance Program
Black Duck Software, a company best known for its services and software for the procurement and re-use of open source software, has acquired Koders, and with it the popular Koders.com search engine for free and open source software code (FOSS).
