Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan ...

Using a specialized Software Asset Management tool and other strategies, the space agency uncovered software consolidation opportunities. NASA faced another moon shot. This time, the civilian space ...

Companies (including through the use of AI) are increasingly reliant on open source software to expedite their software development. A recent case filed in California, SFC v. Vizio, calls upon the ...

When the U.S. Government licenses commercial software, it generally does so under the same terms as any other commercial software licensee, unless the terms of that license are inconsistent with ...

Careful navigation of software licensing agreements can save you a bundle. This guide to popular licensing mistakes and remedies explains how You say software licenses give you migraines? Talk to ...

LicenseFortress®, the leading independent software licensing advisory firm, is warning organizations about the accelerating rise of what it calls Ambush Audits™—vendor-initiated information-gathering ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In their work discussing the history of software licensing, intellectual property scholars Michael L. Rustad and Maria Vittoria Onufrio ...

Federal agencies are missing out on cost savings and making too many duplicative purchases when it comes to IT and cyber-related investments, according to a new Government Accountability Office report ...

Europe’s highest court ruled on Tuesday that the trading of “used” software licenses is legal and that the author of such software cannot oppose any resale. The exclusive right of distribution of a ...

The European Court of Justice reportedly says today that the rule applies to copies of software both on physical media and downloaded from the Internet. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...