With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

The cost-free nature of open source AI software does not necessarily equate to automatically being risk-free. As is explained below, a company should carefully consider the risks of using open-source ...

AGPLv3, a license for free software, to its license options and move to an open source license model on May 1, 2025. Redis is a popular NoSQL database that has been provided under a permissive license ...

Potentially heralding a fundamental shift in definitions of open source, HashiCorp moved to more restrictive licensing for infrastructure-as-code (IaaS) tool Terraform in 2023. The Cloud Native ...

Open source software maker Elastic will soon make things quite difficult for AWS as the company is moving its source code from the Apache 2.0-license to the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the ...

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as “open source” ...

Bitwarden has sought to calm user backlash in the wake of source code changes that had raised concerns among users. Phoronix readers recently flagged concerns about the company's apparent shift away ...

Licensing is an important aspect of practicing Open Science. By applying licenses to your research data and to other research outputs, you remove any ambiguity over what others can - and cannot - do ...