Residents of hell, start checking for icicles: Microsoft has gained Open Source Initiative (OSI) approval for two of its "shared source" licenses, making it an official backer and provider of ...

Open-source software allows anyone to modify, enhance, or view the source code behind it. It can encourage collaboration in ...

The meaning of the term “open source,” is about to change, according to the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the group that determines whether or not software licenses can be called “open source.” Board ...

Open source licensing gives you the freedom to deploy software for whatever purpose you want, even to tinker with its internals or to build complex systems with components from different developers.

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Software license compliance analysis vendor Open Source Risk Management Inc. (OSRM) is adding insurance coverage to its offerings to help businesses ensure the open-source license integrity of ...

It was February 1989, and on the fifth floor of 51 Franklin Street in Boston, Richard Stallman, then a 36-year-old programmer and graduate of MIT and Harvard, was writing the first version of the GNU ...

The past few years have been interesting, if not complicated, for CIOs and senior IT executives at companies using Linux and other open-source software. Some have been threatened with lawsuits (first ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

Walk into any office, hospital, or university today, and you’ll see just how much there is to manage: rooms, equipment, ...

Customize content and workflows with HubSpot CMS software’s unique developer resources. Gain access to a variety of packages and licenses for open source software. HubX Asset Copier is a Chrome ...