Heather Meeker's Open Source Licensing Resources

Black Duck announced that a patent issued on its license compliance methodology.  This move is likely to be unpopular with the open source community, given its opposition to software patents generally.  The patent application was filed seven years ago, which is a long lead time even in the glacial pace of US patent prosecution.  Black Duck's Tim Yeaton blogged about the patent, floating a trial balloon about an IBM-style patent pledge.

The Kenai site announced that it is closing its doors, triggered by the completion of the acquisition of Sun by Oracle, saying "the infrastructure (which is already used under NetBeans.org) will live on to support other domains in the future."

Symbian announced its source code release today -- ahead of schedule.

After a long road, Oracle completed its purchase of Sun, resulting in speculation about the fate of Java, Solaris, and MySQL -- though the latter was the subject of a public commitment by Sun, reported earlier in this blog.

The UK released a new policy statement on the procurement of open source software.