This week the Software Freedom Conservancy won a default judgement and against Westinghouse Digital Electronics for not complying with the GPL in their use of BusyBox software within their products. Near the end of 2009, the SFC began their legal action...
0 replies - 12237 views - 08/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
For years, IBM has been at the top of the server game, but a new study by Gartner says that HP is the new leader in server revenues. In Q1 of 2010 HP recorded $3.39 billion in revenue - IBM… $3.05 billion. Ten years ago when HP acquired Compaq, the...
0 replies - 11117 views - 05/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The final launch date for Silverlight 4 has been set for April 13. This doesn't mean for sure that Silverlight 4 will be available on that date because of the way Microsoft does its launches - it could be downloadable after, during, or possibly before April...
1 replies - 11507 views - 04/07/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
With a headline that claims you can "Help keep the Internet free," MySQL creator Monty Widenius sprung into action once again on his blog to rally the troops against Oracle's expected acquisition of Sun and MySQL. Nearly two weeks after the Oracle...
6 replies - 6905 views - 12/29/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Today, as a result of "constructive discussions with the European Commission," Oracle released a statement of commitments to the customers, developers, and users of MySQL. The statement addressed some major concerns held by the EU and MySQL...
2 replies - 7083 views - 12/14/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Linkoping, Sweden February 18, 2009 NNL Technology AB announces the release of new versions of the InfoNode Swing products. All products are available under the GPL and a commercial licenses.
0 replies - 896 views - 03/01/09 by Jesper Nordenberg in Announcements
As a follow up of my Why GPL? Or: How the GPL eats the kittens it protects post, I’d like to discuss a few comments and explain some misconceptions, my own included.
10 replies - 5409 views - 09/08/08 by Jörn Zaefferer in Articles
The GNU Public License is the best known for its viral aspects. Among the prominent GPL licensed software is of course the Linux core and MySQL. Recent newcomers include the JavaScript framework ExtJS and the application server SpringSource Application...
12 replies - 5887 views - 09/03/08 by Jörn Zaefferer in Articles
As part of my work on the Java Swing Builder project (which is released under the business-friendly Apache 2.0 license) I've run into at least two cases recently where I could not integrate with particular other useful OSS projects.This was because both of...
32 replies - 6498 views - 08/19/08 by Jacek Furmankiewicz in News
What do you do if you build your project with an open-source library, but that library then changes its license to one you cannot easily work with?
11 replies - 8784 views - 04/22/08 by Rick Ross in News
