A defined set of requirements for open source software from the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The Open Source Definition (OSD) stipulates not only access to the source code, but also integrity of ...

New plan may remain too restrictive for some developers Redis, the company behind the popular value-key database of the same ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) companies, such as Meta’s Llama or Elon Musk’s Grok, claim they are open source. But not many agree on what open source AI is. A new working definition ...

Free and open source software is released with licenses that allow it to be redistributed freely for others to use, copy, and/or modify within certain restrictions and conditions. Free culture refers ...

“Their licensing decisions announced this week are confirmation that shipping software with licenses that comply with the Open Source Definition is valuable—to the maker, to the ...

Open Invention Network (OIN), the only institution focused on mitigating patent risk in open source software, is marking its 20 th year of protecting Linux and open source technologies from patent ...

Users of open source software can modify the programs to fit ... abandoned when it no longer generates enough profit. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...