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 …

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 …

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?

Is there a comprehensive list of open source licenses?

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