Free Software Foundation (FSF) founder Richard Stallman published a statement last week expressing concern about the Swedish Pirate Party's copyright reform platform. The party's ambitious goals for ...

Caution remains the watchword for incorporation of “copyleft” software into proprietary software projects, as a German court has declined to provide insight into the reach of the influential free ...

There's no such thing as "the" open-source license. There are lots of them. Sixty-nine to be precise if one accepts the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as the definitive arbiter of what is open source ...

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 ...

Open source licenses are all different, but they are often categorized according to an important attribute. Some open source licenses implement a clever hack invented by Richard Stallman where as a ...

No one would confuse cyber-lawyer Lawrence Lessig with Homer Simpson – symbol for all that is dumb about America. But Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, has spent a ...

<decisions>If you're a developer and you want to offer your products to the public, you need to protect it and yourself with a license. So-called open source licenses are a popular way to do just that ...

You need sound coding skills to create good software, but the success of an open source project can also depend on something much less glamorous: your choice of software license. That’s because the ...