Even if an open source enterprise should go belly-up its code should survive. That code can be enhanced, it can be forked, it can be turned into another business, perhaps with another business ...

Open source refers to software or other projects with source code that can be viewed, modified, or upgraded by anyone. Learn about the pros and cons of open source.

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse ...

This issue of whether you can pull code from an open-source program under the GPLv2 keeps coming up. In the last go-around, some people argued they could take their code out of Linux.

The open-source movement was driven by an anti-corporate spirit, rooted in collaboration and rejection of gatekeepers. In Washington, conservatives of that era saw it as “coding for hippies,” as ...

Open-source code is everywhere. It is the underpinning of hundreds of commercial products used in government, the private sector and by individual citizens. Over the years, from the early days of Unix ...

It seems a simple enough concept for anyone who’s spent some time hacking on open source code: once you release something as open source, it’s open for good. Sure the developer might decide ...

Are Codes of Conduct a threat to open source projects? Codes of Conduct have often been pushed to create “safer” environments, while opponents sometimes find such codes repressive and suffocating.

The White House will release a draft policy Thursday for sharing source code among federal agencies, including a pilot program that will make a portion of federal code open source.

A New York-based nonprofit group has sued television maker Vizio Inc in California state court to force it to share the source code for the software it allegedly uses in its smart TVs.