licensing

Reports on Broadcom's vSphere Express cite up to 128 cores and a $9,600 figure that none of the cited reports attributes to Broadcom; analysts split on the EEA vSphere 8 terms.

Sources describe divergent licensing moves tied to AI-assisted rewrites of open-source code: chardet went from LGPL to MIT to 0BSD, Modular added a clause against AI reimplementation of MAX, and Asahi Linux began a switch to the GPL.

Beam and Ripple-65B list Apache 2.0, Muse Spark Open adds a $20 million Model-as-a-Service condition, and SWE-2 Flash keeps its weights private; each benchmark table is the vendor's own, run with differing setups.

Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro weights on Hugging Face under a license with a $20 million Model-as-a-Service revenue condition; two published index scores differ.

Modular published the MAX graph compiler, runtime and hardware backends under a new MAX License that restricts AI-assisted reimplementation and distribution of modified source, while Apache 2.0 parts stay.

The Linux Foundation submitted its OpenMDW-1.1 AI model license to the Open Source Initiative for approval, but reviewers are contesting a clause that terminates rights over copyright lawsuits, not just patent ones.

Google will shut down free access to the Apache 2.0-licensed Gemini CLI on June 18, replacing it with a closed-source Go rewrite that enterprise subscribers alone will inherit.

After a six-month community process and unanimous vote, the PHP Group has retired the PHP License 3.01 and Zend Engine License in favor of the widely recognized BSD 3-Clause.

Spotify and UMG announced a licensing deal enabling Premium users to create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists' songs, with revenue shared back to rights holders.

A coalition of nine European companies forked OnlyOffice into Euro-Office, prompting an AGPL v3 licensing dispute and the suspension of an eight-year Nextcloud partnership.