A detailed legal analysis of Prusa Research’s new Open Community License has been published. The “OCL” was recently released ...

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?

The vote in the core PHP team on new open-source licenses has begun. These are intended to create a uniform regulation.

Both free and open source software licenses are distribution licenses. This means that the software is distributed to you under the terms of that license, and it does not affect the original author’s ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.