open...

Sharing lies at the heart of free software, and drives much of its incredible efficiency as a development methodology. It means that coders ...

If there were ever a region that could benefit immensely from open source, it is Africa. And yet South Africa aside, not much seems to be h...

Google seems allergic to the AGPL: So, first AGPL was not good enough for Google because it was not OSI-approved. That limited its populari...

On Open Enterprise blog .

Bruce Perens has achieved the remarkable feat of being one of the leading figures in the open source world without ever becoming a fixture ...

Has badgeware - software whose licences requires attribution to be displayed in all copies - gone legit? Roberto Galoppini seems to think ...

..well, some of its licences, at least: Acting on the advice of the License Approval Chair, the OSI Board today approved the Microsoft Publi...

So, Microsoft has finally done it, and submitted two of its licences to the OSI for approval. Here's my earlier analysis of what'...

For many years, the only decent free end-user app was GIMP , and the history of open source on the desktop has been one of gradually filling...

All is explained here (well, not all, but a bit.)

As I've written elsewhere , people have realised that there's a bit of a problem with the term "open source". It's be...

So EUPL - the European Union Public Licence - is now approved , by the European Commission at least: The Commission has approved the EUPL on...