Popular open source news - Licensing

It looks like some of Google's attorneys will have some explaining to do now that the USPTO says the Nexus trademark belongs to a telco from Oregon.

XML co-inventor plans to compete with Apple's "sterile Disney-fied walled garden" through promoting Android's vendor-less freedoms...

The Open Source Initiative have elected Simon Phipps, who recently left Oracle after serving as Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, to the board of directors...

Novell's proposed acquisition will likely drive Red Hat into the arms of VMware or Oracle, but will have minimal impact on the larger open-source commercial ecosystem.

Senate leader blasts tech industry for bowing to pressure from foreign governments to censor Internet content, pledges to introduce legislation to impose civil or criminal penalties on complicit tech companies.

Jeremy Allison looks back at the demise of Sun Microsystems on ZDNet. "The Solaris operating system, the Java language and virtual machine, the OpenOffice office suite - all of the really large software projects that Sun released - had string...

The BBC has enabled SWF Verification for its iPlayer streaming video service. This content protection mechanism has locked out users who consume the iPlayer video content with open source software. Adobe has publicly documented the Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) that is used by Flas...