Free and open-source software licenses

Sonatype Helps Organizations Manage Open Source License Obligations and Speed up Legal Compliance with New Tool

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021
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b'FULTON, Md., May 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sonatype , the leader in developer-friendly tools for software supply chain management and security, today unveiled its Advanced Legal Pack which fundamentally changes how both legal teams and developers manage open source licenses and compliance.

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  • b'FULTON, Md., May 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sonatype , the leader in developer-friendly tools for software supply chain management and security, today unveiled its Advanced Legal Pack which fundamentally changes how both legal teams and developers manage open source licenses and compliance.
  • Using machine learning and artificial intelligence, the pack automates open source license compliance eliminating manual work, drastically improving team productivity, and expediting development innovation and release times.\nToday, most teams rely on extremely time-consuming, manual processes to collect, compile, and review all of the necessary legal data to both comply with open source license obligations and generate accurate attribution reports.
  • Using open source software can very quickly become a legal and compliance risk for enterprises if proper procedures aren\xe2\x80\x99t in place,\xe2\x80\x9d said Brian Fox, Sonatype CTO.
  • This includes more than just license detections to cover copyright statements, all notice statements, and all license texts found in a component.

Worldwide Open Source Service Industry to 2026 - Reduced Cost of Ownership and Time to Market is Driving Growth - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Thursday, March 11, 2021
Software, Technology, Internet, Data management, Open content, Articles, Open-source movement, Free software, Software licenses, Business models, Free and open-source software licenses, Computer law, Open-source software, Open source, Permissive software license, Business models for open-source software

This newly created software may be distributed, which saves a lot of cost and time and contributes to the growth of the open-source service market.

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  • This newly created software may be distributed, which saves a lot of cost and time and contributes to the growth of the open-source service market.
  • According to WhiteSource Software, a provider of security, compliance, and reporting solutions for managing open source components, 67% of open source components have permissive licenses.
  • Open source is becoming increasingly interdependent, wherein North American developers have long played an essential part in fostering open source development.
  • Furthermore, the increased adoption of open source services by various end-user industries in the region boosts the growth of the market.

Code for AI becomes public as part of startup license structured by The Working Group

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Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Free and open-source software licenses, GNU Project, Free software, Open-source movement, Operating systems, Copyleft, GNU General Public License, GNU, Royalty payment, University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License

), acquired the license of technology developed by Blackbird Logical Applications, LLC (Blackbird.io).

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  • ), acquired the license of technology developed by Blackbird Logical Applications, LLC (Blackbird.io).
  • The license includes a royalty and a cash payment of up to $50 million in the event Port.
  • The license terminates in the event of non-use of the technology with an agreed upon period of time.
  • Ilya Podolyako, the founder of Blackbird.io, released the underlying source code to the public under a GNU General Public License 3.0 license at bbio.fogbugz.com.

CUBRID launches CUBRID 11, Open Source DBMS for OLTP

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Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Database management systems, Databases, Data management, Free and open-source software licenses, Relational database management systems, CUBRID, Cross-platform software, Hierarchical and recursive queries in SQL, GNU General Public License, Apache License

SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CUBRID is pleased to announce the release of CUBRID 11, the latest stable version of the CUBRID DB engine.

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  • SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CUBRID is pleased to announce the release of CUBRID 11, the latest stable version of the CUBRID DB engine.
  • In the meantime, CUBRID 11.0 license has been changed from GPL to Apache License 2.0, while CUBRID 10.2 or lower versions still adopt GPL v2 or higher license.
  • The main features of the newly released CUBRID 11 version are as follows:
    Security Enhancement: By providing data encryption and packet encryption, CUBRID 11 improves security.
  • CUBRID is looking forward to improving their product performance and strengthening their market competitiveness with the open source culture's value and philosophy persistently.

Global Open Source Service Market (2020 to 2025) - Growth, Trends and Forecasts - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Monday, January 4, 2021
Technology, Software, Open content, Articles, Collaboration, Free culture movement, Free and open-source software licenses, Computer law, Intellectual property law, Business models, Adoption, Permissive software license, Open source, Free and open-source software

According to WhiteSource Software, a provider of security, compliance, and reporting solutions for managing open source components, 67% of open source components have permissive licenses.

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  • According to WhiteSource Software, a provider of security, compliance, and reporting solutions for managing open source components, 67% of open source components have permissive licenses.
  • Open source is becoming increasingly interdependent, wherein North American developers have long played an essential part in fostering open source development.
  • This indicates the increased level of open source adoption across the region, hence its adoption across vendors in the area.
  • Furthermore, the increased adoption of open source services by various end-user industries in the region boosts the growth of the market.

GPL Initiative Grows Over 40%; More Than 60 Companies Have Joined the Campaign for Greater Predictability in Open Source Licensing

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Thursday, September 10, 2020
Software, Technology, Data management, Open content, Open-source movement, Free and open-source software licenses, Collaboration, Copyleft, GNU Project, Computer law, Intellectual property law, GNU General Public License, Open-source software, Open source

By making this commitment, these 17 corporate leaders are seeking to strengthen long-standing community norms of fairness, pragmatism, and predictability in open source license enforcement.

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  • By making this commitment, these 17 corporate leaders are seeking to strengthen long-standing community norms of fairness, pragmatism, and predictability in open source license enforcement.
  • The 17 new companies in todays announcement are a diverse set of leading companies whose participation makes evident the worldwide reach of the GPL Cooperation Commitment.
  • Providing a cure period to correct license compliance issues will foster adoption of open source software and participation in open source communities.
  • We believe the GPL Cooperation Commitment is a common sense approach to encourage more collaboration in open source software."

OPNsense® OSS Security Platform Celebrating Progress With 10th Major Release

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Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Articles, Software, Operating systems, Free software, Open-source movement, Firewall software, Computer network security, Free and open-source software licenses, OPNsense, BSD licenses, Open source, Berkeley Software Distribution

OPNsense shares its success and longevity with the Jaguar, the third largest cat, as its celebrate its 10th major release.

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  • OPNsense shares its success and longevity with the Jaguar, the third largest cat, as its celebrate its 10th major release.
  • OPNsense is the fastest growing open source security platform with an Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved 2-clause or simplified BSD license.
  • Simply put: OPNsense keeps the good packets flowing and the bad ones out, just as easy as that sounds.
  • With the release of the book "Practical OPNsense" by Markus Stubbig, the mission to make OPNsense the most widely used open source security platform is well on its way.

Venafi: Four Ways Open Source Libraries Leave Organizations at Risk

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Thursday, May 30, 2019
Technology, Data management, Internet, Networks, Software, Security, Articles, Free software, Open content, Free and open-source software licenses, Software licenses, Hacker culture, Criticism of intellectual property, Malware, Open source

Organizations are becoming increasingly dependent on open source libraries (OSLs) to develop code for software and websites.

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  • Organizations are becoming increasingly dependent on open source libraries (OSLs) to develop code for software and websites.
  • Cybercriminals use trust attacks to maliciously manipulate and insert code into open source libraries, taking advantage of organizations dependence on them.
  • Unsuspecting developers and site managers actively introduce malware into their own software and websites when they use a compromised OSL.
  • Instead, the industry needs to work together to make open source code more dependable.

Affirmation of the Open Source Definition

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Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Articles, Human behavior, Free software, Software licenses, Free culture movement, Terms of service, Free and open-source software licenses, The Open Source Definition, Debian Free Software Guidelines, Open source, Open Source Initiative, Debian

These benefits are codified in the Open Source Definition (OSD), which is based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

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  • These benefits are codified in the Open Source Definition (OSD), which is based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
  • The Open Source Initiative, its members, affiliates, and sponsors, promote and protect this fundamental definition through software license review and approval.
  • Without this single, standard definition of "open source," software development as we know it would not be possible.
  • We pledge to guard and maintain the Open Source Definition, and we recognize the Open Source Initiative as the steward of the Open Source Definition.

Artifex and First National Title Insurance Company Reach Settlement Over MuPDF Open Source Dispute

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Friday, September 21, 2018
Free software, Free and open-source software licenses, Software, Copyleft, GNU Project, MuPDF, Portable software, GNU Affero General Public License, Affero General Public License, Ghostscript, Artifex, GNU

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Artifex Software, Inc. and First National Title Insurance Company announced today a confidential agreement to settle their legal dispute.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Artifex Software, Inc. and First National Title Insurance Company announced today a confidential agreement to settle their legal dispute.
  • 4: 18-cv-00503-SBA, filed by Artifex in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, concerned the use of Artifex's open source software MuPDF under the GNU Affero General Public License and the GNU General Public License.
  • While the parties had their differences in the interpretation of the open source licenses, the companies were able to reach an amicable resolution based on their mutual respect for and recognition of copyright protection and the open source philosophy.
  • First National Title Insurance Company (FNTI) is a regional title insurance underwriter operating in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Florida.