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Understanding Open Source & Free Software Licensing: The MIT, BSD, Apache, And Academic Free Licenses
White Papers The MIT (or X), BSD, and Apache Licenses are classic open source licensing software licenses and are used in many open source projects. The most well-known of these are probably the BSDNet and FreeBSD Unix-like operating systems and the Apache HTTP...
[October 24, 2007, 0:00]
Apache Patch Covers HTTP Security Hole
News The Apache Software Foundation released on Wednesday an updated version of its market-leading Web server software, primarily to patch previously undisclosed security holes. The group, which coordinates development and distribution of the open...
[May 30, 2003, 10:13]
Apache Open-source Site Attacked
News The organisation responsible for the popular open-source Apache Web server software confirmed on Thursday that its servers were broken into, the second attack in May on a high-profile open-source software site.
[June 1, 2001, 9:16]
Open Source Java Project Wants Code Donations
News Apache Harmony, a project which plans to create an open source implementation of Java, has called on the Java business community to donate software. Geir Magnusson, a board member at Apache Software Foundation, said developing open source...
[July 5, 2005, 15:00]
Apache Project In Tune With Java Changes
News Apache Harmony, started last year, is creating an open-source version of Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), software for making Java programs on PCs. About two weeks ago, the board of the Apache Software Foundation approved a change in...
[November 15, 2006, 9:04]
JBoss And Apache Clash On Shared Code
News The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and JBoss are at odds over various sections of code in the Geronimo and JBoss application servers. In summary, the source code incriminated by Exhibit A [a section of code which JBoss claimed Apache had copied...
[November 12, 2004, 16:55]
Apache Misses Java Server Target
News The Apache Software Foundation's open-source project to build a Java application server has hit a bump. The Geronimo project, launched a year ago by the Apache group, is working to create software that will run Web applications based the Java 2...
[July 26, 2004, 15:35]
Apache Generates Java Buzz With Beehive 1.0
News The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced the release of Beehive 1.0, its component toolkit for J2EE and Struts. This isn't the first time that code originally from a commercial software house has been released as an Apache project...
[October 5, 2005, 14:35]
Apache Founder Joins OpenSolaris Board
News Sun has tapped a founder of the successful open source Apache software project to join a new advisory board governing the OpenSolaris operating system project, the software and server maker said Monday.
[April 5, 2005, 10:20]
New Boost For Open-source Community
News Expanding the imprint of open-source software, the Apache Software Foundation will launch an open-source project around business process management server on Monday. The software, which will be developed under the auspices of the existing Jakarta...
[October 1, 2004, 9:10]
Apache Synapse Sparks Web Services Connections
News The Apache Software Foundation is expected to launch on Monday an open source integration server project, part of a bigger effort to create a full suite of Web services infrastructure software. Called Apache Synapse, the proposed project will...
[August 22, 2005, 10:10]
Apache Encourages Female Coders
News The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is hoping to increase the participation of women in its open source projects by setting up a new mailing list. Jean Anderson, who works on the Apache Derby database, said on Monday that the list would provide "a...
[August 22, 2005, 17:45]
New Apache Flaw Adds To Internet Woes
News Web servers and corporate PCs are at risk from vulnerabilities in the popular Apache server software and in a component of Microsoft's Windows 2000. The Apache flaw could allow an attacker to discover sensitive information or execute malicious code...
[August 20, 2002, 12:19]
Apache 2.0 To Debut On Monday
News Covalent Technologies will release its long-awaited version 2.0 of the Apache Web server software on Monday -- ahead of software from the larger Apache project itself. But Covalent, which employs some but not all of the key members of the Apache...
[November 12, 2001, 11:11]
Open-source Code Contains 'as Many Flaws' As Proprietary
News The source code for a newer version of the Apache Web server software is of the same quality as proprietary competitors at a similar stage of development, a new study has found. The study found 0.53 defects per thousand lines of code for Apache...
[July 1, 2003, 11:12]
Microsoft's .Net Set To Link To Apache
News Microsoft on Wednesday will take a significant step toward expanding the appeal of its .Net software plan by announcing a link to Apache, one of the most important open-source software projects. The software giant plans to extend .Net to the...
[July 24, 2002, 14:41]
SpamAssassin 3.0 Adopts Apache Licence
News Project leaders for the widely used software chose to enter the fold of the Apache Software Foundation to take advantage of the nonprofit group's legal and technical resources. The previous dual-licence situation was confusing for handling software...
[September 23, 2004, 8:55]
Flaws In Apache 2.0 For Windows May Hit Takeup
News The latest report from UK-based Netcraft found that more than 16,000 Windows-based sites running the Apache server 2.0 software may be vulnerable to security flaws that have emerged since the Windows release of Apache 2.0.
[March 4, 2003, 16:35]
Linux And Unix 'had More Vulnerabilities Than Windows'
Talkback Apache Apache Software Engineering Institute Software Engineering Institute OS, Web Server and Hosting History for www.us-cert.gov OS Server Last changed IP address Netblock Owner Linux May-2005 Linux
[February 21, 2006, 12:54]
Scripting Flaw Leaves Sites Vulnerable
News A flaw in the common open-source scripting language PHP could allow attackers to crash or compromise a hefty fraction of the nine million servers running the open-source Web software Apache, as well as other Web servers.
[February 28, 2002, 9:48]
