The Apache Software Foundation is in a dispute with Sun Microsystems over a license for the Java technology compatibility kit needed for the Apache Harmony project. Harmony is an open source ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the Web Sandbox runtime created by its Live Labs team under the Apache 2.0 license. Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of the ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

The Mozilla Foundation will re-write its Mozilla Public License to make it more compatible with Apache and more globally acceptable. Mozilla is best known for its Firefox browser. (Picture from ...

Google finally entered the mobile software market by turning the 2005 acquisition of Android into the Open Handset Alliance. Google hopes to promote third-party mobile software development and foster ...

OpenLogic, makers of open source license compliance scanning software, have released some stats about open source license proliferation and popularity and it makes for some interesting reading. The ...

Last week I wrote about CouchDB founder and Couchbase developer Damien Katz announcing that he and his team would be concentrating on CouchBase Server and not CouchDB going forward. In his blog post ...

Open-source spam killer SpamAssassin 3.0 has been released, and while the new version has more features than its predecessors, it is in the licensing where it deviates the most from past versions.

Representatives of the FSF and the Apache Software Foundation said Tuesday that they expect to iron out the "11th hour" legal problem that created incompatibility in the latest and near-final GPL ...

In an open letter, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) outlines its vision to offer a neutral collaboration opportunity, with a few OpenOffice trademark restrictions laid out, too. Back in June 2011, ...

The Apache Software Foundation is in a dispute with Sun Microsystems over a license for the Java technology compatibility kit needed for the Apache Harmony project. Harmony is an open source ...