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Digital Life Clippings – December 18th
Samsung shuts down ChatOn – CNet – If only there was a way for their customers to uninstall their impotent self-defence against Google. EU software procurement breaches rules more than ever before –...
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Apache License Yes, Apache CLA No
In a thread on Twitter, the CTO at Chef Software defended the company against the accusation from an open source contributor that it demands copyright assignment from contributors. Chef’s CTO Adam...
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FLOSS Weekly on CouchDB
Simon joined Randal Schwartz to interview the lead developers of document database CouchDB on FLOSS Weekly 378....
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Oracle Gets It Right: NetBeans Heads To Apache
In a surprise move, Oracle has submitted a proposal to the Apache Software Foundation Incubator to adopt the NetBeans IDE — written in Java, for Java — as an Apache project. The proposal is very well...
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Large-Scale Governance – 10 Apache Lessons
Starting a large-scale open source project? The Apache Software Foundation is the benchmark against which you will be measured. We’re now well beyond the point where open source has “won”. We’re seeing...
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Engaging Open Source Communities
At FOSDEM 2017, Simon gave a well-attended talk explaining many of the things that could go wrong for a company trying to engage a large open source project over legal or governance issues. Based...
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4 Lessons From Watching Governance Games
Even near-perfect governance like Apache’s can get gamed by a determined and well-resourced player. What lessons can we learn from their experience? I’ve previously written about the fact the Apache...
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Apache Bans Facebook’s License Combo
The Apache Software Foundation has moved the “Facebook BSD+Patent grant” license combination (FB+PL) to its “Category X” licensing list, effectively banning inclusion of any software under FB+PL from...
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5 Reasons Facebook’s React License Was A Mistake
Facebook’s BSD+Patent license combo fails not because of the license itself but because it ignores the deeper nature of open source. In July 2017, the Apache Software Foundation effectively banned the...
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Control Or Consensus?
You’re entitled to your opinion but in open source licensing only the consensus of the community really matters. In a recent conversation on the Apache Legal mailing list, a participant opined that...
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