For open-source software developers, coding is the easy part. Trying to find the right open-source license is where things get painful. It’s like standing in line at Starbucks trying to decide whether ...

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

In August, Google launched a free project hosting service on Google Code. One of the unique features of this service is that it only supports 7 licenses (compared to over 50 listed at opensource.org).

There's a bit of news on the the open source license non-proliferation front. Proliferation of incompatible open source licenses has balkanized the open source software community to a point that code ...

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The long-delayed and much-awaited Open Source Initiative report on open-source license proliferation has been released, but the current licenses have been placed into three broad categories and have ...

First it was the Affero General Public License that Google banned from its Google Code site, an open-source code hosting site. Google contended that it didn't want to encourage license proliferation ...

The issue they have is that it encourages “license” proliferation, which is bad for open source. Too many licenses, each with their own rules, makes it difficult to share code. From the viewpoint of ...

Open source licensing gives you the freedom to deploy software for whatever purpose you want, even to tinker with its internals or to build complex systems with components from different developers.

Much of the focus and fight over the next draft of the GNU general public license Version 3 (GPLv3) has centered on digital rights management (DRM) and patent provisions. However, GPLv3, which is ...

Amazon’s behavior toward open source combined with lack of leadership from industry associations such as the Open Source Initiative (OSI) will stifle open-source innovation and make commercial open ...