We decided at The Document Foundation not to try to offer a public deployment of LibreOffice Online, as it would be a massive undertaking and we've no way of funding it reliably. So I am delighted to see

Apache banned RocksDB and React.js because of the novel license Facebook used for them. Regardless of the actual terms of the license and patent grant, Facebook messed up by inventing a novel legal instrument

I had the chance to interview Brian Behlendorf, executive director of the Hyperledger project today. Well-resourced and very active, Hyperledger is a project creating platforms and tools for private blockchain

The dispute by the Apache Software Foundation over Facebook's addition of a patent grant to the BSD license rumbles on. Corporate-backed Apache developers are livid that Facebook will withdraw this grant

The Apache Software Foundation has banned the license that Facebook use for code like React.JS and RocksDB. While Facebook have already relicensed RocksDB to fix the issue, the React and the rest of their

I will be interviewing Brian Behlendorf, the executive director of the HyperLedger project, live on FLOSS Weekly this Wednesday, July 19. What questions should I ask?

A rarely-mentioned but important aspect of OSI license approval is that it takes away the doubt about the software freedom status of software using the license and thus further lubricates collaboration.

DRM is not just a strategy to protect revenues. Whether you agree with it in that role or not, it comes with a toxic side effect. Because digital locks persist indefinitely, they continue to apply even

Phone chip maker Qualcomm started two significant legal moves today to attack Apple. It initiated a complaint to the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) claiming that imports of iPhones

Copyright law was never meant to apply to how ordinary people enjoy creative works. It was never really even about ensuring authors get paid. It was meant to settle disputes between people who make the

One of the fundamental freedoms open source is being able to change to another supplier if the original one stops being useful - overcharging, acquired by a toxic owner, development terminated, and so

Well hello there. I'm delighted to discover steemit - remarkably I proposed just such a blockchain-based system to colleagues back in 2014. I've been in the computer industry for over 40 years and I've

In September 2012, the Hugo Awards were presented in Chicago at Chicon 7, the World Science Fiction Convention. This is a venerable event with much more longevity than you might imagine - the 2012 convention