Information Week

AUGUST 12, 2022

Open-source software is more than a license. Below are three recent case studies of OSS being relicensed or going rogue, each providing a practical guide for vetting and using OSS.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The startup's focus is providing language model solutions released through open-source licenses, so that AI can become "useful" to anyone with no need to spend huge amounts of money or pay to access. Mistral is a new AI company co-founded by former Google and Meta alumni valued at $260 million. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

AUGUST 3, 2023

Meta recently launched AudioCraft, its framework to generate "high-quality," realistic audio and music, with an open-source license. The technology is designed to address a gap in the generative AI market, where audio creation has historically lagged behind. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

JUNE 22, 2023

Intel One Mono is better than free, because it is provided with an open source license and was designed with a. Intel Corporation worked with the Frere-Jones Type design studio and marketing agency VMLY&R to create a new font, one that would be easier to read and free to use. Read Entire Article

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Duma is drafting a bill to restrict government agencies from buying licensed software, giving preference to open-source software. Read More.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 12, 2022

Results point to a clear desire for license cost savings, code portability and strong community backing offered by open source technologies. Read More.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Here is their press release : NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community. The software is “open source,” which means its code is available to the public – in this case, through the Apache Software Foundation. New technology automates high-volume data flows. economic growth.”

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TechSpot

MARCH 20, 2023

John Deere has been recently called out for its inability to properly handle open-source software according to the GPL license. Read Entire Article

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CTOvision

JANUARY 13, 2015

Sharing the application with the open source community helps accelerate its potential to become the standard for storing, enriching and analyzing massive amounts of raster data in a distributed cloud environment. Analysis Big Data CTO DoD and IC Intelligence Community Open Source Cloud Computing NGA'

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Open source software (OSS) started as a reaction to companies like Microsoft and Oracle making “unfair” profits on software, so developers created Linux and MySQL and made them available to anyone for free. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. Now OSS has gone full circle.

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SPF13

JULY 21, 2010

My take on open source licenses. Open Source licensing can be a confusing and daunting task. Most developers simply adopt licenses of other popular projects. I wanted to shed some light on the most popular licenses and provide some guidance on which one should be used and when. Open source.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The nonprofit consortium MLCommons has released a massive, license-free dataset for speech recognition system development and testing. Read More.

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 13, 2022

For years, developers of free, open-source software have been telling anyone who will listen that their projects needs better financial assistance and more oversight. Now, after a number of disastrous incidents involving open-source code, the federal government and Silicon Valley may finally be listening. Read more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That’s why Rimini Street strategic services groups assist clients at any stage of their infrastructure modernization, including: • License advisory services to help maximize deployment of your Oracle Database licenses to achieve the best return on investment • Help with developing a business-driven, rather than vendor-dictated roadmap–even migrating (..)

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon. Truth Social doesn’t comply with that license and, in fact, refers to its service as “proprietary.”

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 25, 2014

Flash-optimized in-memory NoSQL database SDK and database server now available under open source licenses Read More. Enterprise aerospike database flash in-memory'

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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CTOvision

APRIL 17, 2021

AWS has unveiled the OpenSearch project – a community-driven open-source fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana – in response to Elastic changing its licensing terms for these at the start of the year over what it regarded as AWS exploiting its open-source code. plus […].

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TechSpot

APRIL 5, 2024

"In addition to improved IT security, cost-effectiveness, and data protection, the use of open-source software also enables seamless collaboration between different systems," officials said. Alongside open-source software development, the goal is to release future development results of the country under free licenses."

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SPF13

JULY 20, 2010

Open Source licensing can be a confusing and daunting task. Most developers simply adopt licenses of other popular projects. I wanted to shed some light on the most popular licenses and provide some guidance on which one should be used and when. BSD & MIT Both licenses are very similar.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google is ending development on the virtual reality painting app Tilt Brush — one of the most well-known VR applications — and making it open source. Tilt Brush’s code can be accessed on GitHub now , but Google says some features had to be removed from the open-source release because of licensing restrictions.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 6, 2022

Grafana Labs is replacing Apache 2-licensed Cortex with Mimir, which is broader in scope and licensed under the more restrictive AGPLv3. Read More.

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Information Week

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

When implementing open source software, look beyond the license terms to understand who is driving change on the software.

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Tech Republic Data Center

AUGUST 31, 2021

Docker announced a new subscription plan for enterprises and free access to Docker Desktop for personal use, educational institutions, non-commercial open-source projects and small businesses.

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SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Live Studio, TikTok’s new livestreaming app for Windows, supposedly uses code from the free livestreaming program Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) (via Protocol ). This would typically not pose an issue when done properly because OBS is open source — however, TikTok purportedly fails to adhere to OBS’ licensing requirements.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 21, 2017

Its licensing framework is one of the key differences between LinkedIn’s data center tech foundation and OCP. Read More.

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Tech Republic

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Despite Black Duck's attempts to hype the AGPL, there are very good reasons to believe it's not the ideal open source license.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Open-source AI regulation is mentioned in the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA), which is now under discussion in the EU. However, severely restricting the usage, sharing, and distribution of general-purpose, open-source AI (GPAI) might be seen as a step backward.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 23, 2021

The Linux Foundation has announced a new permissive license designed to help foster collaboration around open data for AI projects. Read More.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In my list of planned 2017 projects , I mentioned that one thing I’d like to do this year is launch an open source book project. Well, I’m excited to announce The Open vSwitch Cookbook , an Apache 2.0-licensed licensed book project aimed at providing “how to” recipes for Open vSwitch (OVS).

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Tech Republic

MAY 1, 2022

The post PDF Converter Pro: Lifetime License appeared first on TechRepublic. Convert All Types of Documents into a Wide Variety of Formats, Efficiently & Accurately.

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Venture Beast

MARCH 12, 2021

Open source or proprietary? License fees? How much does a database cost? It depends. Support contracts? Here are some of the factors. Read More.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

NASA will soon perform a significant upgrade to the systems employed in its spaceflight computers, adopting the RISC-V architecture developed and provided under open-source licenses. NASA selected SiFive to provide the CPU cores, a fitting choice as the company headquartered in San Mateo, California was founded 7 years ago to.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 13, 2016

Open source software is critical to the modern enterprise software landscape. Alluxio is open source under the Apache license, and we are committed to maintaining this model. Alluxio is one of the fastest growing open source projects in the Big Data ecosystem.

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Venture Beast

MAY 6, 2022

GitLab, an open source code repository and collaborative software development platform, was awarded a software licensing reseller agreement with the State of California. Read More.

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Network World

JULY 28, 2021

The goal of an SBOM is similar, listing all the proprietary, open source, and licensed components being used in a particular piece of software, so that a buyer can review it and check whether any of those components are outdated or insecure. To read this article in full, please click here

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