The Open Source Initiative maintains a list of approved open source licenses, which comply with the OSI's definition of "open source." In the OSI's own words, these licenses "allow software to be ...

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.

Vitalik Buterin calls for copyleft licensing in crypto to safeguard open-source innovation and curb growing concentration of ...

The open source world has recently seen a few high-profile projects with unusual terms. They call themselves “open source” and “free for research and commercial use,” and some pundits ...

Sentry has recently announced the creation and adoption of the Functional Source License (FSL), a non-compete license that converts to Apache 2.0 or MIT after two years. Similar to the Business Source ...

Companies (including through the use of AI) are increasingly reliant on open source software to expedite their software development. A recent case filed in California, SFC v.Vizio, calls upon the ...

After its move to a restrictive license created a fork that has outperformed the Redis project, the company yesterday adopted the less restrictive GNU APGL license.

The Affero General Public License is similar to GPL 3.0, insofar as it’s a “strong” copyleft license that promotes software freedoms and ensures modified versions remain open source.

The benefits of open source software are well understood, promising greater control and transparency. There are two broad kinds of licenses that meet the formal open source definition as laid out ...