Open source is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and so is the Apache License. The Apache License is a permissive free software license that is currently in its third iteration. The license allows ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the Web Sandbox runtime created by its Live Labs team under the Apache 2.0 license. Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of the ...

Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open-source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation, one of open-source software’s biggest supporters. “Microsoft is becoming a sponsor of ...

Now that Android has been unveiled, questions have emerged about the implications of Google's decision to distribute its platform under the open source Apache Software License, rather than the ...

Last week I wrote about CouchDB founder and Couchbase developer Damien Katz announcing that he and his team would be concentrating on CouchBase Server and not CouchDB going forward. In his blog post ...

The Mozilla Foundation will re-write its Mozilla Public License to make it more compatible with Apache and more globally acceptable. Mozilla is best known for its Firefox browser. (Picture from ...

The Free Software Foundation's executive director thinks that the GPL3 can still be modified to achieve compatibility with the Apache License. OSS/Free software need to get their act together. For ...