Tag: legal
Hashicorp Versus OpenTofu Gets Ugly
Hashicorp is accusing the open source OpenTofu Project of swiping some of its BSL-licensed Terraform code. Enter the lawyers ...
Forking RHEL! Oracle and SUSE Join the Fight ¦ Silverman Sues AI Firms
Richi Jennings | | ai, CentOS, commercial open source, Ethics in Open Source Development, Fedora, free software, generative AI, gpl, ibm, large language model, legal, legal issues, LGPL, license, licensing, linux, LLM, LLMs, open source, open source code, open source community, open source development, open source ecosystem, open source licensing, Oracle, red hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Linux, rhel, software licensing, SUSE, The Long View, training modelsIn this week’s #TheLongView: SUSE announces a Red Hat Enterprise Linux fork after Oracle said a similar thing, and Sarah Silverman says OpenAI and Meta have stolen her words ...
IBM/Red Hat Sparks Anger at GPL ‘breach’ as RHEL Source Locked Up
Richi Jennings | | CentOS, commercial open source, Ethics in Open Source Development, Fedora, free software, gpl, ibm, legal, legal issues, LGPL, license, licensing, linux, open source, open source code, open source community, open source development, open source ecosystem, open source licensing, red hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Linux, rhel, software licensing, The Long ViewIn this week’s #TheLongView: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) goes closed source. Well—not really, but … ...
Oracle v. Google and Its Impact on APIs and Code
What, if any, impact will the Supreme Court's rulings on Oracle v. Google have on the industry at large? TL/DR: It is unlikely to impact the vast majority of us, vendor and ...
DevOps Institute Brandjacking: When Imitation is Not the Sincerest Form of Flattery
“There can be only one” ~ Duncan McCloud, Highlander They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Often it is absolutely true. But stealing, ripping off and/or trying to trade ...
How to Manage Risk, Regulation and Compliance Differently —and Better
Martin J. Logan | | binary risk management, business outcomes, compliance, legal, perceived risk, Regulation, riskDuring my career as a technology leader I have worked on PCI security, lawsuits, federal and state compliance, foreign market launches and acquisitions. All of these have regulatory, compliance and legal aspects ...
Why PR, Legal and HR Matter for Continuous Delivery
By most definitions, DevOps involves making developers and IT Ops teams work better together. But integrating other parts of an organization, such as legal and public relations, into DevOps is also important ...
