Free Software Licensing and Legal Challenges
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Parity Launches Beta Version of Tool Stack for Building Blockchains
The beta version of Substrate is licensed under the GNU General Public License, but in order to provide maximum developer freedom, the tool’s repository will be moved to an Apache 2.0 license.
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The Cyclical Theory of Open Source
But in a world in which appetites for open source software commercially are under threat from – among other areas – proprietary cloud based offerings, it is certainly possible that industry appetites and support for open source could be slowed if public models give way to private alternatives.
Many of those that have resorted to problematic licenses, however, feel as if they’ve been left with little choice. In their view, they foot the bill for the majority of development on an open source asset, only to see a cloud provider pick up that code and offer it as a competitive service – often without so much as an acknowledgement of the open source codebase it’s derived from.
The question facing these providers, and the market as a whole, is not whether or not the typical commercial open source vs cloud provider dynamic is optimal – it is clear that, while improving, it is not. The question rather is whether or not a license is an appropriate remedy for the issue.
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Automated Compliance Tooling project announced, Code California launches, Tor funding, and more news
When you think of open source projects, the first thing that comes to mind is probably code. There's more to it than that. One vital aspect of open source that doesn't get a lot of attention is license compliance. That could change, thanks to the ACT project that the Linux Foundation is launching.
Short for Automated Compliance Tooling, ACT brings together four compliance projects: FOSSology, QMSTR, SPDX Tools, and Tern. The goal of ACT, according to the Linux Foundation, is to "consolidate investment in, and increase interoperability and usability of, open source compliance tooling." In the end, this will help users and companies more easily "find up-to-date and current compliance documentation."
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Startups are taking on Amazon's cloud with a controversial new plan, but experts warn it could undermine the foundations of open source
In response, three smaller software companies behind some of the open-source software that Amazon and others rely on — Confluent, Redis Labs, and MongoDB — have gone on the defensive. In recent months, they've made changes to their licensing that prevent cloud platforms from profiting from the open-source code that they develop. Open source can't be "free and unsustainable" research and development for tech giants, Confluent CEO Jay Kreps said last week.
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Radio Gets Ridiculous
Of course, he’s leveraging the analog conversion in the microcontroller as well as the ability to generate signals in software. You might think that’s going to be an anemic receiver. Granted, it won’t be a high fidelity long-range receiver, but it does interface with GNU Radio!
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