Offering your software product under an open-source software (OSS) license has its advantages. By making the source code of your product available for redistribution and modification, and in many ...

Potentially heralding a fundamental shift in definitions of open source, HashiCorp moved to more restrictive licensing for infrastructure-as-code (IaaS) tool Terraform in 2023. The Cloud Native ...

Matt Aslett had a great post about defining an “open source vendor” earlier this week. The post was in response to OpenNMS CEO Tarus Balog, who didn’t agree with Matt’s use of the term “open source ...

An open-source software license permits users to read, access, change and reuse the source code of a software product. Whether it’s Apache on your Web servers or Linux supporting your databases, free ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

Open source might be many things, but one thing it’s not is a business model — by most estimations, at least. However, that hasn’t stopped Joseph Jacks and OSS Capital from seeking some of the ...

Open source software has come a long way since its early days in the 1950s and 1960s, when source code was freely shared alongside the machines it ran on, fostering a collaborative and open ...