Open Source / GPL

This editorial is an experiment. It was originally written by Radu-Cristian Fotescu for his blog, but he offered us the chance to publish it here on The Jem Report as well. It is extremely long,…

Open source software has changed the rules of the game, impacting significantly the economic behavior of stakeholders in the software ecosystem. In this new environment, developers strive to be…

OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the results of a survey regarding the most recent draft of the GPL v3…

The pairing of revenue-generating established companies with still burgeoning SOA-facing concerns is not limited to mergers and acquisitions. We've seen just recently more innovative partnerships…

The question of the enforceability of the GPL came into question during a presentation by Taiwen Jiang, the XOOPS maintainer. XOOPS is basically a home grown China, well actually Asian, Open…

Though the final release of the open source GPL version 3 license is still likely several months away, software vendors are already ramping up their efforts to help track violations.

While…

WebLOAD, created by the co-founder of Mercury Interactive and backed by 1,600 commercial deployments and 250 engineering years, adopts GPL

SAN RAMON, Calif., April 11, 2007 — RadView…

Confusion and controversy about Open Source licensing did not start with current Free Software Foundation efforts to revise the GNU General Public License (GPL). Nor will emergence of an…

Open-source developer and evangelist Bruce Perens has scathingly dismissed claims by a lawyer for the Association for Competitive Technology that the latest draft of Version 3 of the GNU General…

SourceForge.net (part of the OSTG, Inc. technology network, a wholly-owned subsidiary of VA Software Corporation, NASDAQ: LNUX) and Krugle, Inc. today announced that SourceForge.net has embedded…