Learn what open source licenses are, which one to choose, and why it matters.

But there is more to it than that, with various licenses existing within each bucket. Moreover, there are countless licenses that, while not strictly open source, are also worth knowing about.

The Open Source world worries about whether the GPL and other Open Source licenses will stand up in court.

The open source world has recently seen a few high-profile projects with unusual terms.

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

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 ...

Become familiar with some of the common open source software licenses and their requirements: Not all OSS licenses require derivative source code to be disclosed or made available at no cost.

That’s the reason for the vast versions of SPICE available now decades after the original was released, not all of which are as open or free as we might like. Qucs is a GPL circuit simulator.

Ever wanted to know the difference between Apache 2.0 and MIT? Or permissive and copyleft open source licenses? Read on.

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 ...