Given that the US Federal Government can't hold a copyright for any work it produces, does it make sense to use an open-source license, or should items be released explicitly unlic …

What does the "ASP loophole" refer to?

If you work for a corporation looking to release open source code, would you host these projects on a public forge (sourceforge, google code, launchpad etc) or would you create you …

We're asked this one a lot: when we talk about the GPL, we generally talk about the "reciprocal" provisions of the license - what does that mean?

We have several projects using a particular open source set of tools. When the project starts, the developers tend to go to the appropriate forge and download the current version o …

I talk with many cloud providers (be it any of the three asses, IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS) who're developing SDKs or tool-kits for developers to use to build on-top of their clouds/platf …

There are obviously a wide variety of FOSS tools that handle various server backup tasks - we use Zmanda's ZRM package for our MySQL production database workloads, for example - bu …

Companies such as Google favor the Apache License (http://www.apache.org/licenses/) for a lot of their use cases. Why would you choose Apache versus GPL style? And, why would you …

Looking for a comprehensive list of all of the open source software available from any source.

Mårten Mickos mentioned the other day that he's seeing "more open source companies starting to use the Affero GPL 3 license." Which projects are using the AGPL?

The Open Source Initiative has over four dozen open source licenses available. Which one should I use for my software? How do I choose?

What is the most popular open source license employed by projects today?

I try to get people to use open source software and with the likes of Firefox, it is a no-brainer, however, apart from browsers, the software people mostly use is Microsoft Office. …

I use the very basic iMovie to edit files from my video camera and from Skype video recordings. iMovie is fine for my needs in terms of functionality (well, I'd like more audio co …

In various blogs and forums I hear people referring to 'forking a project'. What does this mean?