DUBLIN, Ireland --Software that is placed under "copyleft" -- as opposed to copyright -- may be in a legal limbo and is still reliant on the concept of copyright, an Irish legal expert says. But ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has encouraged the crypto industry to adopt “copyleft” open-source licenses amid concerns the industry is losing touch with its collaborative roots. In a newly ...

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

Free Software Foundation (FSF) founder Richard Stallman published a statement last week expressing concern about the Swedish Pirate Party's copyright reform platform. The party's ambitious goals for ...

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 ...