Open Source Census Results Not Open Source?
Earlier today I wrote about the Open Source Census project, wondering what license the data collected would be distributed under.
After reading the sponsorship page for the project, I believe that OpenLogic intends to restrict distribution of the data gathered, as indicated by the following quote from the page:
Platinum sponsorship is designed for companies that want [...]
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Open Source Census
Stormy just pointed a mailing list that I subscribe to at the Open Source census project.
At a glance, the project looks well thought-out — software, documentation, legal agreements, FAQs and so on are all in order.
The only thing that jumps out at me as missing is a notice about what license census data will be [...]
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Life on the Lagging Edge: Greasemonkey Rocks!
I've been doing some interesting work (though, perhaps only to me) on the OSI mailing lists over the last week (which I'll be writing about later). A lot of it has involved far too much manual processing of data from mailing list archives. In particular, I've found that I'm doing the following over and over [...]
Links for "Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing" attendees
I gave an ad hoc presentation on the last day of the International PHP Conference. During the presentation, I mentioned a few resources, which I have listed below:
The Free Software Foundation Website
The Free Software Definition
List of Approved Free Software Licenses
The Open Source Initiative Website
The Open Source Definition
List of Approved Open Source Licenses
The Software Freedom Law [...]
OpenMind 2007: OpenMoko - The Truly Open Mobile Phone Platform
I skipped out on the previous session so that I could get my electric plug adapter from my room (and to get a break from typing.) I've come back during the afternoon break and am waiting for the OpenMoko session to start. The room is pretty full - I'm guessing that I'm not the [...]
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OpenMind 2007: Monty on the Future (and Past) of Databases
After a break, Tommi Mikkonen of the Tampere University of Technology introduces Monty Widenius (who is, as most readers of this blog will know is one of the founders of MySQL AB)
Monty takes the stage wearing a suit - a nice suit - something I don't recall having seen before.
He starts with an overview [...]
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OpenMind 2007: The Novell Keynote
Carlos Montero-Luque, the VP of Product Management for Novell's Linux Business Unit, takes the stage to give an overview of Novell's Open Source strategy and role in the market, along with how partnering is a key part of Free Software and Open Source business
If one would expect all BigCo software execs to be clued in [...]
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Hacking Business Models
This weekend, Monty and I got together for a different kind of hacking session.
Instead of developing software, we were working on developing a set of rough principles and rules for running a Free Software/Open Source business. We both have a good amount of experience working with various FLOSS projects (like Mozilla, MySQL, PHP, etc.) and [...]
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GPL v3 Last Call
The FSF just announced that the last draft of the GPL v3 is ready for review and comment. The FSF will hear comments for the next month and expects to officially publish the license on Friday, June 29, 2007.
To participate, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org.
Changes in this draft include:
GPLv3 is now compatible with version 2.0 of the Apache [...]
php|works 2006: General Followup
php/db|works ended yesterday in the early afternoon after the most merciful (read brief) closing keynote I have attended (Thanks Marco!) Congratulations to Marco, Sean, Arbi and crew for running a nice community-centric event! It was small, but it was also easy to have nice conversations with many of the attendees and the atmosphere was [...]
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