open source licenses

It's always amusing when companies make some sort of blanket statement or policy... only to realize they did it so broadly as to go against their own interests.

Then you watch them backtrack. Microsoft got itself in some hot water lately, when some people realized that the rules for Microsoft's phone app store appeared to ban certain types of open source software.

The specific claim was that it said certain types of licenses were to be excluded.

ZDNet Asia: "Film effects specialist Sony Pictures Imageworks has released five digital image-manipulation software tools under open source licenses."

451 CAOS Theory: "Amid all of it, we're pleased to present our latest long-form report, CAOS 12 - The Myth of Open Source License Proliferation."