Open source software is a vital part of modern computing; it’s involved in much of the software we use every day. But is it too good to be true, and is it really free, in either sense of the word?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.

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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.

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek app is seen on a phone in front of a flag of China on Jan. 28, 2025, in Hong Kong, China. (Photo illustration by Anthony ...

By prioritizing transparency, businesses may reduce exposure to threats while maintaining development agility.

There is a bright side to this, too: maintainers can modernize and improve open source code that they wouldn't have had the time to do before. I ported the littlefs C library to rust in a few days, ...