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 ...

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 ...

有没有曾经在某个软件的封面上看到这么一行字，“版权没有，翻印不究。但请协助改进本作品”？这似乎跟我们一直在大力提倡的保护版权有点儿背道而驰哦。没错，这就是现在网络上越来越多人在热捧的“版权所无”行为。因其与copyright（版权）的各类限制 ...

There's no such thing as "the" open-source license. There are lots of them. Sixty-nine to be precise if one accepts the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as the definitive arbiter of what is open source ...

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan ...

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 ...

For most of the 2000s, copyleft licenses (in particular the GPLv2) were the most popular choice for new open source projects. In the last few years, developers and companies seem to be trending away ...

Free Software Foundation (FSF) founder Richard Stallman published a statement last week expressing concern about the Swedish Pirate Party’s copyright reform platform. The party’s ambitious goals for ...