Licensing

Learn more about open source licensing, compliance, and licensing-related legal cases.

SXSWi: The open agenda

SXSW Interactive gets started this week, and there are a lot of sessions on the agenda with topics related to the open source way. Music collaboration, open government…

Open source procurement: Copyrights

As I wrote previously concerning indemnity, I constantly encounter both governments and companies claiming they have policies permitting or even favouring open source software…

Adventures in copyright

A few events took place that affirmed for me that pushing forward with the agenda to rid our room of copyright violations and plagiarism is the right course of action. I'll…

Nollywood and the copyright conundrum

Over the holidays I thought a bit about the copyright conundrum. Is copyright a vital source of creativity, or more of a hindrance? Most of us assume that we need strong laws…

Transparency in energy usage

I'm pretty passionate about renewable energy. After I read Thomas L. Friedman's " Hot, Flat, and Crowded" I was sold on higher prices for gas and putting solar panels on every…