Back on June 10, as part of a low-key release of Berkeley DB, Oracle quietly changed the license of this important embedded database library, widely used as a key-value store within other applications ...

If open source struck you as strange when you first heard of the concept, you don’t know the half of it. Developers, exercising their legal right specify their own licensing terms, have come up with ...

Debate and discussion around data management, analytics, BI and information governance. Open Source, Free and Open Source Software, Code Available, GNU General Public License (GPL), Berkeley Software ...

In contrast to the GPL, the BSD’s goal is to pass on control to those who adopt it, thus making the terms of the BSD license more pragmatic, generous, flexible and an overall better choice for today’s ...