For many reasons, existing open source licenses are not a good fit for AI. Simply put, AI involves more than just software and most open source licenses are designed primarily for software. Much work ...

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 ...

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.

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Today, Redis makes a dramatic return to its open source roots, offering Redis 8 under the AGPLv3 license. The shift follows a similar move by Elastic in August 2024 and completes the company’s ...

There is a bright side to this, too: maintainers can modernize and improve open source code that they wouldn't have had the time to do before. I ported the littlefs C library to rust in a few days, ...