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 ...

For many reasons, existing open source licenses are not a good fit for AI. Simply put, AI involves more than just software and most open source licenses are designed primarily for software. Much work ...

It is not uncommon for open source licenses to change. When licenses change, users often need to re-evaluate compliance risks. Take Redis as an example. Redis is a popular key-value store whose open ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

If only I had known about the amazing world of open-source! These free programs are built by a community and offer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...