Copyleft licensing requires that derivative works of copyleft-licensed software be distributed under the same license terms, creating obligations that organizations must track and comply with. The ...

In my last post, I talked about how much (or little!) we know about the licenses in the 30+ package managers and 2+ million packages in libraries.io, but tried not to talk about specific types of ...

Bradley Kuhn started off his linux.conf.au 2016 talk by stating a goal that, he hoped, he shared with the audience: a world where more (or most) software is free software. The community has one key ...

I often have discussions about the risks of using AI, but honestly, there are so few legal precedents that it tends to become an emotional argument. Rather than focusing on what we don't know, let's ...

Law360, London (December 11, 2023, 12:33 PM GMT) -- There has been a lot of talk, and a lot of litigation, about how copyright might affect artificial intelligence and its users. The lawsuit filed in ...

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 ...

On the final day of LinuxCon Europe 2015, HP's Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink delivered a bold keynote about software licensing. Fink recapped the negative effects of license proliferation and ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin now backs open-source licenses, arguing they better promote open innovation as crypto becomes more “competitive and mercenary.” Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin ...

A federal appeals court has overruled a lower court ruling that, if sustained, would have severely hampered the enforceability of free software licenses. The lower court had found that redistributing ...