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?

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

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 …

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

I'm not posting this, in case there's any question, to encourage a philosophical debate on the subject: I'll leave that other sites and blogs. I'm asking, rather, because it's a …

What is "copyleft," and which licenses can be considered copyleft?