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?

What does the "ASP loophole" refer to?

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

Hi - I work for a management consulting / strategy firm and we are interested in finding an open source solution that can help us manage multiple client engagements. We would id …

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 …

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

I'm on a bit of a network related track recently. So this question goes somewhat hand in hand with my previous question about FOSS Load Balancing (http://fossfaq.com/questions/89/l …