What does the "ASP loophole" refer to?

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 …

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 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 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. …

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?

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

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 …

Every so often - in conjunction with Google Code, for example - someone brings up the topic of "license proliferation." What does that mean?

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?

What is FOSS FAQ? What's the intended purpose of the site?

Is there a comprehensive list of open source licenses?

Yes, you're thinking - why should we convince anyone to go opensource, its the better, cheaper alternative, and all savvy entrepreneurs would use it. But the landscape (here, anywa …

When the CodePlex foundation was newly launched, one of its most interesting decisions was the copyright assignment policy. In essence, CodePlex requires that members either assign …