By placing its qualifying patents in OIN 2.0’s cross-license community, ByteDance strengthens a defensive resource for open source while distancing itself from the political baggage surrounding TikTok.
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SparkleShare’s funding success shows that grants can revive struggling open source projects—but only if maintainers can find the organizations ready to support them.
The latest release of the GNU Compiler Collection addresses regressions and serious bugs found in GCC 16.1.
C-Kermit, the long-running communications utility born at Columbia in 1981, is back with its first major new release in 15 years.
Codenotary says Anthropic’s Claude for OSS program will help accelerate immudb development and improve code quality.
The Argentinian Linux distribution continues its minimalist approach with updated packages, new COSMIC changes, and support for multiple desktop environments.
Arch Linux’s AUR faces a fresh security scare, prompting another round of lockdown measures from the project’s DevOps team.
This update of the nano terminal editor brings crash fixes, key-binding restoration, and a small but useful option tweak.
FreeBSD thought it had scrubbed all GPL code, but a few kernel leftovers remained.
The new release also adds reproducible tarballs and new tools, while dropping Gold from the main tarball.