Open Source / GPL

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Zenoss Marks One Year Anniversary on SourceForge 130K Downloads

Zenoss today announced one-year anniversary of its open source project on SourceForge. The Zenoss project was launched under the GNU Public License in February 2006 with the mission of simplifying…

MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain

Alcatel-Lucent isn't the only winner in a federal jury's $1.52 billion patent infringement award against Microsoft this week. Other beneficiaries are the many rivals to the MP3 audio-compression…

TAPR introduces open-source hardware license, OSI skeptical

The Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) organization is sponsoring a new open-source license intended for hardware components. Authored by lawyer John Ackermann, the Open Hardware License (OHL) is…

Open-source Alfresco shifts to GPL

Alfresco, a start-up that commercializes open-source software for helping customers keep track of their digital documents, has adopted the General Public License in an effort to attract outside…

Pentaho Announces General Availability of Pentaho AJAX

Pentaho Corp., creator of the world’s most popular open source business intelligence (BI) suite, today announced General Availability of Pentaho’s new Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)…

OpenSource medical spelling word list released

OpenMedSpel is a open source medical spelling word list that is released under a GPL license. OpenMedSpel was derived from the word lists complied for MedSpel, a shareware medical spelling tool…

SA government to switch to open source

The South African Cabinet today announced that it had approved a free and open source strategy and that government would migrate its current software to free and open source software.

At a…

Ten Leading Open Source Innovators

Open source discussion has moved from Linux to innovation happening beyond the popular operating system. Open source models are flourishing in CRM (SugarCRM – www.sugarcrm.com), Messaging (Scalix…

Cisco retreats on open-source NAC plans

Cisco has performed an abrupt U-turn and will not now be releasing ts NAC client software code to the open source community. Earlier this month, Bob Gleichauf, CTO of the company's Security…

Open Source University: Getting Students Involved

Theory versus practice - I don't think there’s a better solution in making sure that software developers are ready for the challenges of tomorrow than catching them while they are still in school…