Intel cans its open source licence
News He said that Intel would like to "remove from future use" the Intel Open Source License, to reduce licence proliferation. The issue of licence proliferation has caused concern among some in the open source community as it can increase the cost for...
[March 31, 2005, 15:25]
OSI outlines licence cull plans
News Licence proliferation has been a widely discussed issue in the software industry in recent months. Sam Greenblatt, a senior vice-president at Computer Associates, agrees there's a licence proliferation problem, though he disagrees with Fink's...
[April 7, 2005, 9:20]
Sun lays an open source licence to rest
News The Open Source Initiative, the organisation that bestows official open source status on licences, has been trying to cut down on the proliferation of open source licences. Part of the non-proliferation effort involves encouraging companies to...
[September 5, 2005, 9:35]
OSI targets licence cull
News The Open Source Initiative is devising ways to cut down the rising number of open source licences, as the issue of licence proliferation slowing the spread of open source software was on the front burner at this week's LinuxWorld conference in...
[February 18, 2005, 10:25]
OSI mulls changes to definition of open source
News And the extent to which the new terms curtail licence proliferation depends on how rigidly they're enforced, he added. One problem in curtailing licence proliferation is that new licences emerge for a reason.
[March 3, 2005, 8:05]
Sun submits software licence to Open Source Initiative
News This proliferation of open-source licences is a problem, said Larry Rosen, an intellectual-property attorney who has advised OSI and who wrote Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law.
[December 3, 2004, 7:45]
Google Code reverses open-source licence ban
News Ostensibly as part of an effort to discourage the proliferation of open-source licences, Google dropped support for the MPL earlier in August. Eclipse is an important, lively and healthy project with an enormous plug-in and developer community that...
[August 29, 2008, 8:39]
SpamAssassin 3.0 adopts Apache licence
News We hope this will result in the much wider proliferation of third-party add-ons, and we expect the best of those to be contributed and added to future SpamAssassin releases. But making the licence change illustrated a difficulty of that broad...
[September 23, 2004, 8:55]
HP may fork the GPL
News Licence proliferation has complicated the open source and free software movements. Since the current GPL version 2 was released in 1991, the licence has grown from a philosophical, technological, economic and social curiosity to a powerful force in...
[August 3, 2006, 9:05]
Britain's 3G bill could top £50bn
News Northstream carried out its research for Business AM, and chief executive Bengt Nordstrom told the paper that there would be a proliferation of new mobile masts across Britain as 3G is rolled out. A year after spending between £4bn and £6bn each...
[May 1, 2001, 17:06]
Microsoft simplifies Shared Source programme
News As with other individuals and organisations, we too have seen the proliferation of source code licenses become problematic," Jason Matusow, the director of Microsoft's Shared Source programme, wrote in a blog on Wednesday.
[October 19, 2005, 17:05]
The politics of patents
News With the increasing proliferation of Internet technologies, Acacia has rung up the register. Patented technologies we have partnered with the small companies that have developed these patented technologies but simply don't have the scale or the...
[July 11, 2006, 17:25]
Sony and Samsung sign patent deal
News Not only have tech companies complained loudly about the proliferation of patent suits, but patent attorneys now privately say judges grumble about the length, stakes and complexity of patent cases. There are approximately seven companies, for...
[December 15, 2004, 7:45]
ARM plans fast Java chips
News Java comes at a time when people are looking at a more connected society," said Mike Muller, ARM chief technical officer, referring to the proliferation of consumer electronics devices connected to the Internet and to each other.
[May 10, 2001, 8:24]
Orange fights back in war against spam
News Given the recent high-profile outbreaks of two worms, Fizzer and Palyh, and the ongoing battle against the proliferation of spam, Orange's move is certainly timely. Orange UK's Antigen licence includes five virus-scanning engines, manufactured by...
[May 21, 2003, 16:09]
ISPA says 'Click' will make illegal use of Net easier
News BT's Click project could encourage the proliferation of illegal content on the Internet according to the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) which has now lodged a written complaint with the telecoms watchdog, Oftel.
[July 13, 1998, 15:50]
A Year Ago: ISPA says 'Click' will make illegal use of Net easier
News BT's Click project could encourage the proliferation of illegal content on the Internet according to the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) which has now lodged a written complaint with the telecoms watchdog, Oftel.
[July 13, 1999, 6:22]
US firm claims patent win in online rich media
News Many are placing bets that this technology in conjunction with hand held device proliferation and embedded technology is the gateway to a market that sees a convergence between consumer, workplace and appliance interactions.
[February 22, 2006, 17:25]
Symbian adds security, Java to mobile mix
News It also supports IPv6, the next version of Internet Protocol, which will vastly increase the number of unique IP addresses that can exist, something which will become increasingly important with the proliferation of Internet-enabled wireless devices.
[February 19, 2002, 13:56]
