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Posts on open source license compliance, security, and policy trends, drawn from cases and news encountered in day-to-day practice. Listed newest first.

Posts in 2023

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 …
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Buy Anaconda If You Use It. If Not, Use conda-forge!
March 13, 2023 in Blog
To use Anaconda for commercial purposes, you must purchase a paid version. A developer at a company with 200 or more employees using Anaconda counts as commercial use.
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Posts in 2022

Akka Is No Longer Open Source.
September 30, 2022 in Blog
Akka's license, which was Apache-2.0, changed from version 2.7 to the Business Source License, which companies can no longer use for free.
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A Quick Look at the SFC v. Vizio Ruling
June 14, 2022 in Blog
Let's look at the background and issues of the SFC and Vizio GPL lawsuit.
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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 …
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Can I Use a Publicly Available Dataset to Build a Commercial AI Service?
February 14, 2022 in Blog
Can I use this publicly available dataset to build commercial AI software?
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