2009 December | OpenLogic: The Enterprise Open Source Blog

Complying with the GPL: How to Avoid Being Named in the Next GPL Lawsuit

Posted by Kim Weins on December 17th, 2009 in Legal & Compliance

Earlier this week, the latest round of BusyBox GPL lawsuits were announced by the SFLC. The current offenders are Best Buy, JVC, Samsung, Westinghouse and 10 others. It seems that every few months, there are a new round of violations or lawsuits announced, so it behooves every company that distributes software or products containing software to ensure they aren’t ever on the list. We announced our Open Source Fulfillment Center service earlier this week that helps companies ensure they comply with the GPL.

What Does OpenLogic’s CentOS Support Include?

Posted by Kim Weins on December 17th, 2009 in Support

We announced last week that we were offering support for CentOS — a community distribution of Linux that is created from the publicly available source code that is used to create RHEL. CentOS strives to be binary compatible with RHEL and is built from the source code that is used to make RHEL — minus [...]

Complying With Open Source Licenses Just Got Easier

Posted by Kim Weins on December 9th, 2009 in Legal & Compliance

Companies that distribute software containing open source often struggle to comply with open source licenses. (See latest lawsuit by Artifex against Palm). Most companies that violate open source licenses do so because they haven't properly tracked the open source software they used or what open source licenses apply. The use of code from outsourcers and [...]

OpenLogic Now Supporting CentOS

Posted by Kim Weins on December 1st, 2009 in Support

After four years supporting a wide variety of open source projects for over 120 enterprises, OpenLogic is now expanding our offering to include commercial support for community distributions of Linux. Today we announced that we are offering commercial support for CentOS as our first community Linux distro. Here's a Q&A explaining the why's and how's [...]