software licensing

Microsoft launched its License Mobility with Software Assurance program this month, enabling companies to move on-premise application servers to public cloud hosting services, such as Amazon Web Services, without incurring additional software licensing costs.

Traditional software licensing and pricing models are mostly being pushed today by cloud-based service offerings. A new Forrester Research report identifies alternative models to consider.

Network World: "We seem to be seeing a rise again in the discussions surrounding free and open source software licensing complexity, and the fear that open source may infect or taint your software."

This past week saw a huge dust-up over the issue of whether or not WordPress themes are GPL. It’s not my goal to rehash the debate, or even to discuss it in particular; instead, my goal is to share some thoughts I’ve had about software licensing, and in particular, licensing going forward as a result [...]

Libervis: "I used to be what is sometimes called a "Free Software purist". "Free" here refers to "free as in freedom" according to Richard Stallman's Free Software Philosophy.

As such I was opposed to all proprietary software licensing."

A DISCUSSION PAPER ABOUT SOFTWARE LICENSING AND COPY PROTECTION

Computerworld UK: "According to the National Audit Office, the current bill for the NHS IT project stands at £12.7 billion and rising, the bulk of which will be sunk into software licensing."

All About Microsoft: "Truth can, indeed, be stranger than fiction -- as is evidenced by a May 14 letter on software-licensing policies that was signed by both Microsoft and Linux Foundation officials."