Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development software, made a decision filled with implications ...

I know very few open-source programmers, no matter how skilled they may with the intricacies of C++, who relish learning about the ins and outs of open-source licenses. I can't blame them. Like it or ...

“If you use any open source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source.” That’s what former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said back in 2001, and while his statement was never true, ...

As Apache licenses proliferate, two warring camps have formed over whether the GPL is or isn't falling out of favor A debate has raged for months about open source licensing trends. It all started ...