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?

Over the last few years, companies like Redis, Elastic, MongoDB, and HashiCorp have abandoned their open-source license roots and switched to proprietary models. However, there is one significant ...

Facebook, Google, IBM, and Red Hat today announced they’re going to provide greater legal protection for some of the open source code they license. The companies committed to extend more rights to ...

Steinberg, the Hamburg-based software manufacturer and developer of music production software such as Cubase, has released two of its most important audio interfaces under freely usable licenses. The ...

Companies like Redis Labs, Confluent, and Cockroach Labs have changed their software licenses in response to competitive moves by Amazon Web Services.

More than a 1,000 Docker Hardened Images (DHI) are now freely available and open source for software builders, under the ...

ISO/IEC 5230 is an international standard that defines management methods to ensure reliability and transparency in the use of open source software (OSS). This international standard was established ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...