licensing on SWiK

FSF Free Software Licensing and Compliance Lab - Free Software Foundation

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:12:19 -0700

Illuminata Perspectives " Blog Archive " VMware and the GPL

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:12:13 -0700

had missed this the first time around, and while i'm not as entirely sure as Gordon that there's no legal gray area, the case he presents is solid

[from jaz] Open Source Licenses Comparison

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:54:49 -0700

[from jaz] John Gruber doesn't understand freedom // plasmasturm.org

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:55:46 -0700

Sorry, John. I can clearly write GPL software for the iPhone – but not free software. And if I do that, Apple can't give it to you – not on the App Store's current terms and conditions. T

Open Source Licenses Comparison

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:49:51 -0700

Ext - Dual Licensing Model

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:50:13 -0700

Ext - Dual Licensing Model

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:49:56 -0700

Linus Torvalds, Geek of the Week

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:52:02 -0700

MPL / GPL Incompatibility

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:46:46 -0700

gskinner.com: gBlog: Source Code Licenses and Flash/Flex

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:46:41 -0700

MPL / GPL Incompatibility

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:45:55 -0700

Continuing Intermittent Incoherency " "Why Do I need To Sign This?"

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:45:42 -0700

gskinner.com: gBlog: Source Code Licenses and Flash/Flex

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:45:49 -0700

gskinner.com: gBlog: Source Code Licenses and Flash/Flex

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:49:43 -0700

autonomo.us

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:51:28 -0700

Quick Reference For Choosing a Free Software Licence

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:53:38 -0700

Linux News: Tech Buzz: Dual Licensing: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:57:55 -0700

Could Google be stymied by a lack of openness?

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:51:19 -0700

It seems almost churlish to wonder whether Google could be even more successful than it already is with a different strategy, but the company’s approach to open source and open development has come into focus in recent weeks.

On last week’s podcast we discussed whether the company should see the AGPL as more of an opportunity than a threat following Jay’s post about the company releasing more code under open source licenses.

Nik Cubrilovic over at TechCrunch, meanwhile, has written an interesting article about Google’s acquisition strategy and whether its apparent insistence that acquired companies migrate to its technology platform (C++, Java and Python/MapReduce/Big Table/Google FS) causes the acquired projects to stagnate.

“One of the first main challenges for a company that has been acquired by Google is adopting the proprietary technology stack used within the company. Google does use Linux and open source, but their core technologies are all internal to the company,” states Nik.

“Because of the difference in technology, it can take a company anywhere from a year to three or more years to move over to the Google infrastructure and architecture,” he adds while detailing how the likes of JotSpot, Blogger, Dodgeball, GrandCentral and MeasureMap have lost ground during the move.

As he notes this issue isn’t unique to Google (it’s one of many problems associated Microsoft’s pursuit of Yahoo) but the widespread use of .NET and the Win32 API make it less of a problem for Microsoft in most cases. Meanwhile a significant number of the companies Google is targeting will be based on the likes of MySQL, Apache, Python, and PHP.

In concluding his article, Nik states: “The solutions for Google are either to adopt a more open stack in parallel to what they currently use, or to open source their internal technologies (as Facebook and Yahoo! are doing) in the hope that they will spread and gain adoption from more developers.”

However, Google has been open with the concepts behind technologies such as MapReduce and Big Table, if not the code, and the release of App Engine should help create a new generation of projects that are much easier to integrate into Google’s portfolio. It could be that the problem is a matter of the platform’s maturity and ubiquity, rather than its openness.

Then again, the company’s attitude towards openness related to the development of Android has also come in for some stick this week. Could it be that the company is about to find out that there is no such thing as being half-open?

Open Source Licenses Comparison

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:50:20 -0700

The OpenSSL License and The GPL

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:51:09 -0700

Intellectual Property and Open Source | O'Reilly Media

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:50:36 -0700

Open Source Licenses | Open Source Initiative

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:45:46 -0700

GNU General Public License - Free Software Foundation

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:48:27 -0700

Legal Aspects And Intellectual Property

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:52:02 -0700

Open Source Licenses | Open Source Initiative

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:48:37 -0700

CodeProject: Using XML Digital Signatures for Application Licensing. Free source code and programming help

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:53:20 -0700

Slashdot | Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:48:42 -0700

Slashdot | Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:48:36 -0700

Slashdot | Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:55:57 -0700

The difference in the meaning of free

Slashdot | Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:56:49 -0700

The difference in the meaning of free