Redis, the company behind the popular value-key database of the same name, has returned its main system to an open source license, although the move failed to satisfy some critics.… Adding the GNU ...

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?

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 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.

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 ...

Open source software (OSS) has become an indispensable element of modern technological ecosystems, enabling global collaboration, rapid innovation and widespread access to cutting‐edge tools. Central ...

The dispute between vendors highlights the difficulty in creating European sovereign alternatives to established productivity ...

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” ...