The PHP Group retires its quirky, and partly non‑GPL‑compatible licenses in favor of the widely used BSD 3‑Clause.
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Warp opens its client code at last, though its broader AI ambitions for Oz orchestration remain firmly proprietary.
A late‑breaking minute order from Judge Sandy Leal has delayed Software Freedom Conservancy’s Vizio GPL trial, leaving only a January 26 pretrial hearing firmly set.
The court ruled, SFC fired back, and Linus couldn’t resist weighing in. Here’s what actually happened.
A California judge has tentatively sided with Software Freedom Conservancy in its GPL case over Vizio’s SmartCast TVs, but the final outcome of this week’s hearing is still pending.
Weighing the tradeoffs between open source and freemium software reveals why free-as-in-freedom tools are almost always the better option.
As ODF 1.4 nears release, office suite developers and users alike can expect an open, transparent format designed to meet modern document needs.
A year after OSI debuted its Open Source AI Definition, critics Amanda Brock and Bruce Perens still aren’t sold -- and they say the debate points to bigger questions for tech, as well as open source.
Yet another company has evidently failed to realize going in that open source means open, and is changing to a new proprietary license with "open source" in the name.
What happens when two of open source’s most controversial reformers decide the old rules no longer work? Are you ready for the license that could change everything?