It’s sometimes been said that the GPL is the best license for building an open source business. The reasoning is straightforward: The GPL has a reciprocal property such that those who embed and ...

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?

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 ...

Offering your software product under an open-source software (OSS) license has its advantages. By making the source code of your product available for redistribution and modification, and in many ...

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 ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

What does it mean to be “open source,” and how hard is it to deliver open-source products as a business strategy? These questions loom larger after HashiCorp’s announcement last week that it will move ...

More than 10 years ago, the trend toward permissive licensing was so pronounced that RedMonk analyst James Governor declared, “Younger [developers] today are about POSS—post open source software.

For over 30 years, open source software (OSS) has formed the backbone of the technology industry. Today, it is nearly impossible to find a computing device that does not utilize an open source ...