Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development software, made a decision filled with implications ...

SCO’s Chris Sontag argues there are many reasons that the GNU General Public License is bad for the software industry. The General Public License is not good for the software industry for a variety of ...

As Apache licenses proliferate, two warring camps have formed over whether the GPL is or isn't falling out of favor A debate has raged for months about open source licensing trends. It all started ...

The Software Freedom Law Center is panning Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise (OSP) and recommending GPL users not rely on promises made in the OSP. SFLC’s issues are as follows: 1. Irrevocable ...