Stefano Comino and Fabio Manenti have written a useful paper [PDF] on dual licensing in open source. It's a decent resource for helping developers and vendors figure out why, if, and how to dual ...

The GPL makes sense as a way to protect open-source software from proprietary interests, but doesn't this simply make it a less efficient form of proprietary software? Matt Asay is a veteran ...

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 ...

When selecting software for your business, you may have the option of choosing from open-source solutions or proprietary software. Traditionally, proprietary software has been a popular choice due to ...