Generative AI may be eroding the foundation of open source software. Provenance, licensing, and reciprocity are breaking down.

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is due to announce the formation of the Software Freedom Conservancy Monday. The conservancy aims to make it easier for developers of free and open-source ...

A community insider laments the poor state of FOSS usability while ignoring the real culprit behind all those ugly Linux apps I love lampooning the FOSS community. These self-righteous cyber-hippies ...

AI web-crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many software developers believe. Some devs have started fighting back in ingenuous, often humorous ways. While any website might be targeted ...

Today, the vast majority of codebases rely on open-source code. It is estimated that 70 to 90 percent of all software “stacks” are composed of it. In all likelihood, the vast majority of the apps on ...

Zerodha has completed its $1 million annual fund for Free and Open Source Software projects. The second tranche of $675,000 ...

When you think of open-source software, you probably think of the cost (free), but that's not the full story. There's an entire ecosystem of both selflessness, selfishness, and moral ideals that make ...

GitHub gets the heave-ho by a software developer group. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old developer takes on the maintainer role of the near-abandoned Unity desktop. The start of the summer season brought new ...

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The Software Freedom Law Center aims to make it easier for developers of Free and Open Source Software projects to become tax-exempt entities. The Software Freedom Law Center on Monday is due to ...