Open source is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and so is the Apache License. The Apache License is a permissive free software license that is currently in its third iteration. The license allows ...

Now that Android has been unveiled, questions have emerged about the implications of Google's decision to distribute its platform under the open source Apache Software License, rather than the ...

Microsoft is moving two of its development languages -- IronPython and IronRuby -- as well as the company's Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) to an Apache open-source license, company officials ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the Web Sandbox runtime created by its Live Labs team under the Apache 2.0 license. Microsoft released a Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of the ...

Google finally entered the mobile software market by turning the 2005 acquisition of Android into the Open Handset Alliance. Google hopes to promote third-party mobile software development and foster ...