When the U.S. Government licenses commercial software, it generally does so under the same terms as any other commercial software licensee, unless the terms of that license are inconsistent with ...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are urging the Department of Veterans Affairs to do a more thorough job of tracking the commercial software licenses it holds — and actually uses — before acquiring additional ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In their work discussing the history of software licensing, intellectual property scholars Michael L. Rustad and Maria Vittoria Onufrio ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs entity tasked with centralizing software management across the agency is eyeing artificial intelligence to more swiftly drive cost savings by offloading licenses ...

Jeff VanBemmel, director of end user operations at VA’s Office of Information and Technology, told lawmakers that the department’s total inventory of software licenses includes 4,433 commercial ...

Open source licenses are a foundational part of the commercial software development process, offering freedom to use, modify, ...

Open source software makes inroads vs. proprietary software despite warnings of Microsoft, others. Open source software initially was a head-scratcher: “How can you make money selling something for ...

The Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Overhaul (RFO) continues, with rewrites to FAR Parts 4, 8, 12, and 40 issued August 14, 2025. For our previous alerts on the RFO, see here and ...

Editors' note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes' bio below. Consumer advocates are up in arms over a recent ruling by a federal court of appeals in Seattle. The decision, Vernor v. Autodesk ...

A virtual machine (VM) is an operating system that’s emulated within another operating system. You could run Windows within a MacBook as a virtual machine, or even Windows within Windows. Because of ...

Yet another software license is vying for the attentions of SaaS companies seeking to align themselves with the open source realm, without compromising their commercial endeavors. “There’s been a long ...

A network license (sometimes known as a floating, concurrent, or server license) lets multiple devices share a software license. The number of devices that can run the software at the same time is ...