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Effective Corporate Open Source Management (1): The OpenChain Project for Global Collaboration
March 28, 2023 in Blog
Using open source has become almost essential to modern software development, to the point that it is said over 93% of the software products companies develop use open source. Yet there are reports that 53% of the open source used has license …
Buy Anaconda If You Use It. If Not, Use conda-forge!
March 13, 2023 in Blog
Hello. Do you often use Anaconda when setting up a Python development environment? Python is widely used for everything from simple task automation to data analysis, AI training, and modeling, and running multiple Python projects can create the …
Akka Is No Longer Open Source.
September 30, 2022 in Blog
There is a growing number of cases where software companies that started out as open source change their license policy. Lightbend, a US company that had maintained an Apache-2.0 open source license policy, announced in September 2022 that it would …
A Quick Look at the SFC v. Vizio Ruling
June 14, 2022 in Blog
Hello, this is Haksung Jang. SFC (Software Freedom Conservancy) filed suit against Vizio, a US smart TV manufacturer, alleging violations of the GPL. On May 13, 2022, a US federal court issued a ruling related to this case. I have put together a …
Challenges and Effects of Adopting InnerSource
April 3, 2022 in Blog
Hello, this is Haksung Jang. InnerSource is a method of introducing open source development methodology inside an organization to maximize cross-team sharing and collaboration, and to gain effects such as faster development speed, transparent …
Can I Use a Publicly Available Dataset to Build a Commercial AI Service?
February 14, 2022 in Blog
Hello, I’m Haksung Jang. AI has become such an essential technology in modern business that virtually no company operates without using it. Building an AI service requires large volumes of data, and publicly available datasets are also widely …
Is Open Source Compliance Necessary Even When Providing a Service as SaaS?
December 20, 2021 in Blog
Most open source licenses place no restrictions on simply running the software, but they do require compliance with obligations such as source code disclosure and attribution when the open source is redistributed. Here, “distribution” …
China's First GPL Lawsuit Case: VirtualApp
November 15, 2021 in Blog
Hello, this is Haksung Jang. In September 2021, it was reported through a Chinese news article that the first GPL-related ruling in China had been handed down. I’ve summarized what I understood of it using a translation tool. Please keep in …
Does GPLv2 Also Require Installation Information?
August 1, 2021 in Blog
Hello. P. McCoy Smith, a well-known open source license attorney in the United States, recently published an article titled Does GPLv2 Require ‘Installation Information’ in JOLTS (Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society) (JOLTS). …
Distribution of Dockerfiles: Who Is Responsible for Compliance?
May 4, 2021 in Blog
Hello! In April 2021, Till Jaeger, a well-known German open source lawyer, published an article on who is responsible for the license compliance of the open source software included in the Docker image generated from a Dockerfile. Based on German …