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Sun Exec Proposes Software Freedom Definition and Vendor Scorecard

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In a series of recent posts, our own John Mark Walker has been discussing the viability of open source business models and what the term open core really means to the FOSS community. He makes several great points and calls out the increasingly common practice of companies turning open source efforts into a viral marketing play, when it can be so much more.

Given the competitive nature of business, it's probably too much to ask the commercial software development industry to be self-policing and put an end to calling a product open source simply because it uses an OSI-approved license. Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, thinks it's time to hold vendors' feet to the fire and make them prove themselves to be true supporters of the open source community. He has a plan.



Are There More Open Source Moves on Microsoft's Radar?

Yesterday, we reported on Microsoft contributing drivers to the Linux community, a move that is in stark contrast to the company's long-standing stance toward Linux and open source. In this interview on Microsoft's site, the company's open source czar, Sam Ramji, discusses some of the newer cultural changes with regard to open source that are going on in Redmond. Today, The Register suggests that we may soon see an outpouring of open source initiatives from the software giant. Were the Linux drivers just step one in a wave of parallel initiatives to come?


CPAL? What's That?

As we covered earlier today, Facebook has released a big chunk of its platform code as open source - using the CPAL (Common Public Attribution License) for their main license. If you haven't been closely following the proliferation of open source licenses, this is probably a new one to you. As with any open source code, it's smart to understand your rights before you start depending on the new platform - especially since some of the provisions of the CPAL may surprise you.


Who Should Lead the Open Source Community?

A letter and petition from well-known open source activist Bruce Perens raises questions about how the open source world is governed, and how the decade-long movement can keep potentially hostile forces from changing its direction. Open source software has existed for many years. But we have only had a common definition and term for 10 years. We know this, because it was only in April 1998 that publisher Tim O'Reilly hosted a summit for the authors of several well-known software packages -- including GNU founder Richard Stallman, Perl author Larry Wall, Linux creator Linus Torvalds, and Python author Guido van Rossum.



AGPL Gets OSI Blessing

Despite continued infighting between the Free Software and Open Source communities, the OSI has blessed the new AGPLv3 license.

Late last week the AGPLv3 license (Affero GNU Public License) formally completed the OSIﾒs (Open Source Initiative) license review process. The AGPL license differs from the ubiquitous GPL license in a number of important ways, the biggest of which closes the so-called ﾓASP loophole.ﾔ