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Tag: licensing
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Gartner's Top 19 Enterprise Digital Asset Management Solutions
Looking for an enterprise digital asset management solution? Here is some insight into the platforms that top Gartner's list.
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Why Microsoft Doesn't Want You to Buy Office 2019
Microsoft recently launched an ad campaign encouraging people to buy an Office 365 subscription rather than buy an Office 2019 static license.
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YouTube Introduces Creative Commons Licensing in Videos, Cloud-Based Editor
Licensing content can be a headache, especially for authors and developers who wish to use other persons' or groups' work in their own. While photo-sharing sites have long since advocated the use of Creative Commons licenses, the concept is gaining ground in videos, and YouTube (news, site )
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WordPress: Themes 100% GPL or Bust
WordPress (news, site ) made a small announcement today regarding whether or not the GPL applies to themes. WordPress refers to the GPL as their Bill of Rights, but we like to think of it as a free software license.
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Web CMS Investment Focuses on Implementation, Not Licensing
It has often been said that you can prove anything with statistics. If that is in fact the case, then the results of a new survey will prove what many people know already -- companies are still throwing money at web content management systems.
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Plone Foundation Approves Relicensing Policy
As we've mentioned previously, the Plone (news, site) community has been in discussions over a slight change to licensing policy. No, Plone is not changing licenses. It's sticking with the GPL. However, Plone is now also offering the option for those building Plone Framework Components to
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Vignette Tries Subscription-Based Licensing Model
Ever thought Vignette was way too expensive for your content management heart's desires? Now, there may be a way to rethink this. Today, Vignette Corporation (news, site) announced new licensing models for its web content management solutions, including a subscription-based model. Vignette Web Content Management Suites
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Becta Admonishes Schools Against Microsoft Licensing Liaisons
Apparently the open source crowd isn't the only circle suffering from pinched toes, courtesy of Microsoft. Becta, the education technology branch of the UK, has just filed a complaint with the Office of Fair Trading regarding Microsoft's "anti-competitive practices" in the academic software license sector.
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Socialtext's CPAL Gets OSI's Blessing
After months of grueling work and legal battles, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has officially approved the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL) originally submitted by Socialtext nine months ago.
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Creative Commons v3 Protects Your Inner Genius
When a large corporate body and a suburban teen can use the same platform to air a great idea or persuasive stream of thought, what protects one or the other from negligence of source citation or outright content theft? It's harder to track information back to its origins when the
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