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 …

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 …

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

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?

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 …

I'm working with a friend on a web application we'd like to distribute and we're working in Django. I'd like to make sure deployment is as easy as possible for potential users. I …