Open source licenses are a foundational part of the commercial software development process, offering freedom to use, modify, ...

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 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 is a vital part of modern computing; it’s involved in much of the software we use every day. But is it too good to be true, and is it really free, in either sense of the word?

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 ...

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 ...

Open-source software has been in widespread use for longer than most people realize-consider the majority of websites running on Apache Web server software for more than a decade. It has particularly ...

Software freedom. User freedom. Why do we have to choose? Licensing hasn’t kept pace with the reality of software in the cloud and AI. Folks, we have an open source problem. And, no, it’s not the ...

ZUG, Switzerland, Jan. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- tea.xyz has announced their new ecosystem findings highlighting escalating risks across the global open-source software supply chain, warning that ...

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 ...

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 ...