Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has called on the crypto community to shift toward "copyleft" licensing, arguing that the sector is drifting away from its open-source roots. Vitalik Buterin ...

There's no such thing as "the" open-source license. There are lots of them. Sixty-nine to be precise if one accepts the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as the definitive arbiter of what is open source ...

For most of the 2000s, copyleft licenses (in particular the GPLv2) were the most popular choice for new open source projects. In the last few years, developers and companies seem to be trending away ...

The advantages of free and open source software (FOSS) are quickly explained: it makes high-quality software components available that have been tested by many parties – and, ideally, can be quickly ...

Open source licenses are all different, but they are often categorized according to an important attribute. Some open source licenses implement a clever hack invented by Richard Stallman where as a ...