At this point, Open Source Initiative is starting to look like an organization that’s willingly turning its back on its founding principles.
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Under fire from several different camps for a variety of reasons, Open Source Initiative announces board candidates that, to the surprise of no one, doesn’t include Luke Faraone.
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As everybody from The Linux Foundation to Open Source Initiative to Facebook can tell you, figuring out how to make artificial intelligence platforms fit the four freedoms has been no easy task.
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Will the partnership with Eclipse help OSI understand that the Open Source AI Definition fails to meet just about any open-source smell test?
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Those who aren’t familiar with the recent brouhaha between WordPress’s Matt Mullenweg and the hosting site WP Engine need not worry. The story will unfold as we go along. Otherwise, follow the links along the way.
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Today at All Things Open, Open Source Initiative announced the release of the Open Source AI Definition, possibly paving the way for open source AI licensing.
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Although Elastic plans to make Elasticsearch and Kabana open source again in the “upcoming weeks,” nothing is said about X-Pack, which will evidently continue to be only available under “fauxpen” licensing.
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An article in which our writer takes the competition to task to using the term “open source” in the headline to an article about “fauxpen source.”
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Alongside the notification that Polaris Catalog has been made open source, Dremio announced that it was sharing Project Nessie’s capabilities with Polaris.
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According to a new survey, Oracle’s been bleeding Java JDK customers since it got greedy with its pricing in 2023.
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Redis is only the last in a line of companies that have lately dropped open-source licenses in favor of proprietary open-source lookalike licenses. In this case, a fork has already happened that just might end up being real competition for Redis.
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DreamWorks first released its rendering platform as open-source under the name OpenMoonRay in March, 2023. Earlier this week the software received its first upgrade. These…
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Incus, a fork of LXD affected by Canonical’s licensing shift, stops including changes from LXD to avoid mixed license issues. Here’s more on that!
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In this week’s news roundup, our Christine Hall tells you what she thinks has gone wrong at Red Hat, and again tries to wrestle Elon Musk to the floor. In between, she covers some more of this week’s FOSS news.
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The Open Source Initiative — defenders of open source — is making the approval process for new open-source licenses clearer and easier.
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The Open Source Initiative is planning on making a few changes to how they do things. They think they’ve got it figured out, but first they want to know what you think.
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The San Francisco-based startup that’s caught the eyes of VCs, to the tune of $181.2 million invested in less than a year, is also licensing its platform under the fauxpen source Elastic License.
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