“Oopsies!” FreeBSD Devs Say There’s Still GPL in the Kernel
FreeBSD thought it had scrubbed all GPL code, but a few kernel leftovers remained.
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FreeBSD 16 Cleans House: No GPL Left in the Base System
The removal of GPL code from FreeBSD 16’s base system isn’t just housekeeping — it reflects a BSD vision of “software freedom” that differs from FSF, Gnu, and Linux.
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SFC Makes Bambu Lab the New Front in Its Right‑to‑Repair War
Calling Bambu Lab a ‘strident long‑time AGPL violator,’ the nonprofit is organizing reverse‑engineering volunteers and an Orca Slicer fork in a right-to-repair move for 3D printer owners.
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The PHP License Is Dead; Long Live the BSD 3-Clause
The PHP Group retires its quirky, and partly non‑GPL‑compatible licenses in favor of the widely used BSD 3‑Clause.
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After Years of Teasing, Warp Finally Goes Open Source
Warp opens its client code at last, though its broader AI ambitions for Oz orchestration remain firmly proprietary.
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Docket Traffic Jam Delays Software Freedom Conservancy Vs Vizio Trial
A late‑breaking minute order from Judge Sandy Leal has delayed Software Freedom Conservancy’s Vizio GPL trial, leaving only a January 26 pretrial hearing firmly set.
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KubeSphere Drops Open for Fauxpen — Blames It On AI or Something…
Yet another company has evidently failed to realize going in that open source means open, and is changing to a new proprietary license with “open source” in the name.
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Copyleft-Next Building the NextGen Copyleft License
What happens when two of open source’s most controversial reformers decide the old rules no longer work? Are you ready for the license that could change everything?
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Is Bruce Perens’ Post Open License Necessary?
In March 2024 Bruce Perens released a first draft of his “Post-Open License,” which would require large companies using Post-Open software to pay a fee, while individuals and nonprofits will be able to use it for free.
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Should You Trust Redis’s Rebaptism Into the Holy Open Source Spirit?
Be sure to take the included poll after you read this delve into Redis and the wishy-washy world that has become the company’s relationship with open-source.
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OSI’s Questionable Election Returns Questionable Results
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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OSI’s Roster of Board Election Candidates Doesn’t Include Faraone
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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Is AI Compatible With Free Software?
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 Partnership With Eclipse Help OSI Come to Its Senses on Open Source AI?
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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WordPress’s Mullenweg Puts Lipstick on His WP Engine Argument
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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OSI’s Open Source AI Definition 1.0 Unveiled at All Things Open
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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Hip, Hip, Hooray! Elastic (Almost) Comes Back Home to Open Source
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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Grrr: TechRepublic Headline References Fauxpen Licenses as ‘Open Source’
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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Snowflake Open Sources Apache Iceberg-related Polaris Data Catalog
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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New Survey Spills the Beans on Migration Away From Oracle JDK
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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