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.

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

A California Superior Court appears to have recently answered a longstanding question in the open-source software community and in providing that answer, gave television manufacturer Vizio clarity.

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan ...

You need sound coding skills to create good software, but the success of an open source project can also depend on something much less glamorous: your choice of software license. That’s because the ...

License discussions are usually about as interesting as watching paint dry, but the news that Nokia is going to use GNU's Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for the upcoming release of Qt may be a ...

Then open-source database company takes a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL database and another software ...

The Free Software Foundation is building a plug-in system for optional patent and trademark terms into the new version of its much-used, much-debated license. A new discussion draft of the Free ...

Getting the right license for your open source project can mean the difference between success and failure for your software. You need sound coding skills to create good software, but the success of ...