SAN FRANCISCO — Decrying the proliferation of open source license varieties, a Hewlett-Packard executive on Tuesday urged IBM and Sun Microsystems to abandon their own licenses and back the GNU GPL ...

Open source makes the technology world go 'round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community ...

We’ve all seen the news about the waning use of the GPL open source license. It’s also becoming clear that a handful of OSI-approved licenses are going to win out over the 60-plus OSI-approved open ...

Over the last few years, companies like Redis, Elastic, MongoDB, and HashiCorp have abandoned their open-source license roots and switched to proprietary models. However, there is one significant ...

February 28, 2024 - Over the last few decades open source software has become ubiquitous, and is the foundation of numerous products and services. However, Web3 is likely the first sector to be built ...

As open source software (OSS) is continually utilized across industries, the legal landscape surrounding its use has grown ...

Open-source generative models are valuable for developers, researchers, and organizations wanting to leverage cutting-edge AI technology without incurring high licensing fees or restrictive commercial ...