An organization that helps promote and guide principles for the development and distribution of freely usable software on Wednesday released the latest draft of its GNU General Public License (GPL).

MySQL, an open-source database company, has taken a step to mend a rift in the open-source world by updating a controversial licensing provision that had broken a close tie between the MySQL ...

The open source software movement promotes the public release of core computer code with the aim of letting programmers read, distribute and modify it. Proponents of open source software say that ...

Surprisingly, on many of our campuses, even the IT leadership responsible for the lion's share of technology deployments ...

One of the world's leading advocates of the open source software movement, Brian Bahlendorf gave a talk at the Digital Freedom Expo at the University of the Western Cape on Thursday, entitled "Ten ...

At CNCF, we spend a lot of time looking at patterns across our 200+ open source projects and the broader cloud native ...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Google over Oracle in a major copyright battle about the “fair use” of code. The ruling is widely seen as a boon to the open-source software ...

Lyon has confirmed plans to pull the plug on some Microsoft softwareEuropean and open source software are the preferred alternativesOther European cities are making similar movesFrance's third-largest ...