“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
How open source licensing’s decisions are taken depend on legal issues, business strategies and costs structure.
IP lawyers as well as specialized firms are probably happy to help with the first ones, but let’s talk about the implications in the area of Value Configuration and Key activities looking at some real cases (Day Software, MySQL).
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Over the last weeks Alfresco, Sonatype and WaveMaker made their own decisions about licensing.
Alfresco went LGPL, Sonatype - a company with a strong Apache background - for the very first time decided to release some code under GPL, while WaveMaker dumping the AGPL in favor of Apache.
Let’s have a closer look at how - and if - these changes reflect new business directions.
The second issue of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review - a collaborative legal publication aimed at increasing knowledge and understanding among lawyers about open source - has just been released.
Continue reading ‘International Free and Open Source Software Law Review: the New Issue is Out!’
The BlackDuck Legal Webinar series on the 17th of November at 11:30 am ET will run the Lessons from the Real World. The webinar will cover the main issues an organization face when wants to be in controls on open source. Zenoss and Extreme networks will bring their own experiences in this respect.
On the 16th of April the Korea Software Copyright Committee (SOCOP) - a non-profit organization under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism having the mandate to promote the protection of software-related intellectual property rights - will host the Free Open Source License Insight Conference, at the COEX Intercontinental Hotel (Seoul).
The conference will start with invited talks by experts from abroad and South Korea, a panel discussion will follow. Being and invited speaker I want to thank Ms. Cho Jung-Hyun from SOCOP for her kind invitation, I am really sorry I can’t go.
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Don’t worry about Red Hat’s 2009 profit decline - Savio Rodrigues keeps analyzing Red Hat’s profits, and highlighting that one-third of Red Hat’s profit comes from activities outside of its core business.
Microsoft releases ASP.NET MVC under the MS-PL License - Miguel de Icaza replying to comments explains why MS-PL incompatibility with GPL code is not an issue within C# and ASP.NET code.
Maintenance Woes Handicap Microsoft’s Azure - Billy Marshall’s, CEO of rPath, essay on cloud actors. Read also Javier Soltero’s thoughts.
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The Italian Conference on Free Software, now at its third edition, will be held in Bologna on the 12-13 of June.
ConfSL 2009 - now a regular get-together for free software researchers, developers, and open source advocates - will cover economics, legal and technical issues, along with ethical, social and philosophical implications. Four different tracks will cover it all.
I am a member of the scientific committee, and I am really looking forward to the event.
See you there!
The Open Source Initiative board, after visiting the European Commission, has finally approved the European Union Public license on the 4th of March.
The EUPL 1.1 - the revisited version of the EUPL 1.0 including recommended modifications resulting from the OSI discussion - is supported by the EUPL community. Stakeholders can share opinions and pose questions through the EUPL forums and blog.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Licenses: EUPL got OSI Approval, but Still Doesn’t Show Up’
The NEXA Center for Internet and Society of the Politecnico di Torino - a multidisciplinary research center on the impact of the Internet on society, with a focus on technical, economical and juridical issues - on yesterday published a position paper on file sharing and extended collective licenses.
NEXA’s attempt to over turn the piracy debate with a solution that try to accommodate authors’ and users’ needs, following the example of Nordic European Countries.
Read the full paper (PDF, Italian), a result of NEXA’ Wednsdays.
Black Duck Software, the intellectual property management firm headquartered near Boston with offices in San Francisco, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong - announced the release of the Black Duck Suite, a unified framework bringing together three Black Duck products (Black Duck Code Center, Export and Protex).
Black Duck ’s survey conducted among software developers gathered at the SD West Conference held this week in Santa Clara (California), revealed little awareness about compliance, security and management problems. Actually those issues are addressed by Black Duck products and services, and I asked Tim Yeaton, one of the new CEO met at the open source think tank last week, to tell how he sees the market changing and how Black Duck strategy fits in the big picture.
Continue reading ‘Open Source Governance: Black Duck keeps Quacking, an interview with Tim Yeaton’
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