For many reasons, existing open source licenses are not a good fit for AI. Simply put, AI involves more than just software and most open source licenses are designed primarily for software. Much work ...

Redis, the company behind the popular value-key database of the same name, has returned its main system to an open source license, although the move failed to satisfy some critics.… Adding the GNU ...

Residents of hell, start checking for icicles: Microsoft has gained Open Source Initiative (OSI) approval for two of its "shared source" licenses, making it an official backer and provider of ...

Over the last few years, companies like Redis, Elastic, MongoDB, and HashiCorp have abandoned their open-source license roots and switched to proprietary models. However, there is one significant ...

Facebook, Google, IBM, and Red Hat today announced they’re going to provide greater legal protection for some of the open source code they license. The companies committed to extend more rights to ...

As open source software (OSS) is continually utilized across industries, the legal landscape surrounding its use has grown ...

Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community ...

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Using an open AI model can provide significant advantages, including avoidance of licensing fees and greater control over your data. However, adoption of open source AI is not as straightforward as ...

A small software startup will make its debut at LinuxWorld next week by rolling out a package it believes can help developers manage and mitigate the intellectual property risks of reusing and mixing ...