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What is the ASP loophole?
What does the "ASP loophole" refer to?
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Why would you choose the Apache License?
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 …
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YourOwnForge or SourceForge?
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 …
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How do people handle open source version management?
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 …
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Is there a good open source alternative to Microsoft Office?
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. …
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What does reciprocal mean with respect to open source licensing?
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?
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Where is the best place for me to go to see a listing of available open source software?
Looking for a comprehensive list of all of the open source software available from any source.
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What are the “best” licensing choices for cloud providers SDKs and software?
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 …
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What’s the open source alternative to Apple Time Machine?
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 …
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What is license proliferation?
Every so often - in conjunction with Google Code, for example - someone brings up the topic of "license proliferation." What does that mean?
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Who’s using the APGL?
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?
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What the hell is FOSS FAQ?
What is FOSS FAQ? What's the intended purpose of the site?
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Where can I find a list of open source licenses?
Is there a comprehensive list of open source licenses?
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How do you convince an entreprenur to go opensource?
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 …
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What are each open source foundation’s respective positions on copyright assignment?
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 …

