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 ...

Open source components have changed the way we develop software. Ready-made libraries from the open source community enable busy developers to focus on creating the secret sauce needed to release the ...

Donald Robertson speaks at the FSF Continuing Legal Education seminar in Raleigh, North Carolina, in October 2019. Thirty-five years ago, the Emacs General Public License brought about the age of ...

Copyright is the legal mechanism afforded to the authors of original creative works, such as books, music, and software. Under 17 U.S. Code § 106, the exclusive ...

Developers do not often pay attention to licenses when using various open-source projects. We can often use projects*/part of a project or functions for our applications and programs without thinking ...

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

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