Legal alert: Broadcom is issuing cease-and-desist letters to VMware perpetual-license users

Perpetual-license agreements deemed non-compliant
Users must migrate to subscriptions or face legal action
Broadcom cites IP infringement and support violations
Action: Audit your license status and plan your upgrade path now

#VMware #Broadcom #Compliance #ITsecurity #SoftwareLicensing
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/broadcom-sends-cease-and-desist-letters-to-subscription-less-vmware-users/

I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice

https://code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-address-letter/

VMware Workstation & Fusion Now Free For All Users https://cybersecuritynews.com/vmware-workstation-free-users/ #InformationSecurity #CyberSecurityNews #cybersecuritynews #SoftwareLicensing #Virtualization #Technology #TechNews

#SoftwareLicensing Changes and Their Impact on Financial Outcomes #OpenSource

https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2024/08/26/software-licensing-changes-and-their-impact-on-financial-outcomes/

Focusing on the wrong open source issues - If you follow open source topics on X/Twitter, you can be forgiven for believing the b... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3715386/focusing-on-the-wrong-open-source-issues.html#tk.rss_all #technologyindustry #softwarelicensing #opensource

OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork - OpenTofu’s founders had a mission. Upset by HashiCorp licensing changes in August 2023... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714980/opentofu-may-be-showing-us-the-wrong-way-to-fork.html#tk.rss_all #softwarelicensing #opensource

Ensuring the open source moment continues - Back in the 2000s, we talked about open source a lot—perhaps too much. We fought about... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714784/ensuring-the-open-source-moment-continues.html#tk.rss_all #technologyindustry #softwarelicensing #opensource

Thinking about a software license for the code of the IPA (intelligent personal assistant) framework that we are currently developing in the #w3c #voiceinteraction community group.

The document drafts that we are publishing are using this one https://www.w3.org/copyright/software-license-2023/

Maybe, this is also good enough for our software?

Open source needs to catch up in 2024 - Open source pioneer Bruce Perens gets one thing right and most things wrong in a recen... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3711881/open-source-needs-to-catch-up-in-2024.html#tk.rss_all #artificialintelligence #emergingtechnology #softwarelicensing #cloudcomputing #generativeai #opensource

MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin bag is up $900M amid BTC price surge - Michael Saylor founded MicroStrategy has bought 6,067 Bitcoin sin... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/microstrategy-bitcoin-play-up-nearly-a-billion-amid-btc-price-surge #bitcoininvestmentstrategy #businessanalytics #softwarelicensing #quarterlyresults #michaelsaylor #subscription #statement

Ok #SoftwareLicensing question: we have some software to interface with an #FPGA which uses the manufacturers USB python code. We want to release our code as an open source package (its currently GPL-3, but thats just my default), but it has this license:
https://opalkelly.com/about-us/frontpanel-license/

Opal Kelly hereby grants to the Licensee a temporary, non-exclusive license to install and use Software. Licensee shall not modify, distribute, resell or otherwise transfer Software for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial. Licensee may integrate and sub-license Software for distribution but Software must only be used in conjunction with Opal Kelly devices or devices incorporating Firmware.

That to me says two opposite things: a) we are not allowed to distribute it for any purpose, and also b) we may sub-license and distribute it if we use it with their hardware (we are)

Is this a normal thing in #embedded world? Can we just... copy and paste it into a vendor folder and call it a day, or do we need to redesign this thing?

Rethinking open source for AI - We keep using the term “open source” in the context of large language models (LLMs) li... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3706091/rethinking-open-source-for-ai.html#tk.rss_all #artificialintelligence #softwarelicensing #neuralnetworks #opensource

HashiCorp’s software license turns realpolitik - Well, that was awkward. In July I wrote about shifts in the open source licensing land... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3704809/hashicorps-software-license-turns-realpolitik.html#tk.rss_all #technologyindustry #softwarelicensing #cloudcomputing #opensource

Microsoft faces EU antitrust probe for bundling Teams with M365 - Microsoft is facing an antitrust probe in Europe for bundling Teams with Microsoft 365... - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3703668/microsoft-faces-eu-antitrust-probe-for-bundling-teams-with-m365.html#tk.rss_all #softwarelicensing #microsoft

"[Bruce Perens'] specific vision of a tidy open source license catalog probably differs from mine. But I’d like to set out my thinking.

In short: one permissive license, with optional credit, plus three copyleft licenses—consistent, selective, and historical—likewise with optional credit."

#KyleEMitchell

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/03/17/License-Utopia

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