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 ...

Open-source licenses like the GNU General Public License (GPL), Apache License, and MIT License were crafted during a time when software was written almost exclusively by humans. With the rise of ...

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as “open source” ...

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 ...

This week, Google released a family of open AI models, Gemma 3, that quickly garnered praise for their impressive efficiency. But as a number of developers lamented on X, Gemma 3’s license makes ...

A California Superior Court appears to have recently answered a longstanding question in the open-source software community and in providing that answer, gave television manufacturer Vizio clarity.

The popularity of open-source software continues to grow because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...