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Google Squashes the Rumor: Announces Native Client Technology [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... , a technology that Google says will give web developers the full power of the client's CPU while maintaining browser safety, complete portability, and safety. And yes, it is open source. ...

Google Squashes the Rumor: Announces Native Client Technology
OStatic blogs — ... , a technology that Google says will give web developers the full power of the client's CPU while maintaining browser safety, complete portability, and safety. And yes, it is open source. ...

EPUB generation library open sourced
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — This is from Bill McCoy’s blog: Adobe has just released, under BSD license, EPUBGen, a Java library that generates EPUB. To quote from our digital publishing developer blog: EPUBGen is a Java library that demonstrates EPUB generation from a variety of document formats, and which may be a useful starting point or reference code for other EPUB generation needs. That is to say, it’s an effort to promote the development of a variety of tools and workflows. EPUBGen has both a set of back-end code ...

Latest Upgrade Available For PostgreSQL Database
TechWeb — ... more useful in multi-lingual environments, and new query monitoring tools that give administrators my insight into query activity. Data analysis is easier in the upgrade through the ANSI SQL2003 features of windowing functions, common table expressions and recursive queries, developers said. In addition, enhancements to stored procedures, such as default parameters and variadic parameters, make database programming simpler and more compact. PostgreSQL is distributed under a BSD open-source license, which allows for use and distribution without fees for commercial and ...

Murphy's Law: Open-Source Licensing Brings Headaches, Confusion
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — ... allows you to just link back to main OpenOffice.org site--it's as easy as that. Other licenses like the Berkeley Source Distribution (BSD) have no source code requirement. Unlike the GPL, which prohibits the inclusion of licensed open-source code into closed-source projects, projects based on a BSD license can be passed around, modified, and locked into programs without requiring the source code to be released in any fashion. Mozilla's ...

Serializing Data - JSON vs. Protocol Buffers
Planet Android — ... is an open-source project developed by Google and released under the BSD license. It uses a binary encoding which makes the serialized data a bit smaller and does not require binary data to be encoded before. The data-structures have to be described before serialization by creating a .proto file, compiling it with protoc and including the header files in the project. The libraries from Google are available for Java, Python and C++, with ...

Microsoft unveils Open Source multi core OS
Hack a Day — ... labs and ETH Zurich in Switzerland. This operating system is being built with multi core operations foremost in priority. It is supposed to be extremely scalable and able to function on a very wide range of hardware. You can download the current snapshot of it on their site and dig into the source code, released under a 3-clause BSD style license. If you would like to learn the primary differences between this OS and Windows or Linux, you can read ...

Tinkering with Disclosed Source Voting Systems
Freedom to Tinker — ... Outside of these types of exclusive rights, there's also something to be said for simplicity. The simplicity of the BSD license is a great example: it's widely used and understood to be very generous and easy to understand. The Sequoia license (being the Ms-RSL license) is very simple and easy to understand. The E1C license is not particularly complex, but it's substance is hard to understand (again, apologies that I cannot post the text of that license). The VoteHere license is easy to understand but very complex and extremely onerous in terms of the burden it places on ...