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?

A detailed legal analysis of Prusa Research’s new Open Community License has been published. The “OCL” was recently released ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...

I published a version of this article on Medium eight years ago. This version is updated with new references and arguments. Over the last few years, I’ve been a part of lots of discussions — across ...

The IT Planning Council has revised eight EVB-IT model contracts. Open source will become the standard for new software, ...

The vote in the core PHP team on new open-source licenses has begun. These are intended to create a uniform regulation.

The popularity of open-source software continues to grow because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...