Modern digital infrastructure relies on innumerable open source dependencies developed and maintained primarily by volunteers: The open source community is what makes the web work. Participating in ...

Generative AI is erasing open source code provenance. FOSS reciprocity collapses when attribution and ownership disappear. The commons that built AI may not survive its success. We live in an ...

Adrian Edwards is an open book. Every week, the computer science student can be found in RIT’s SHED working on a free and open source software (FOSS) project that could improve the campus and the ...

Being bought by a commercial competitor is about the best possible thing that could eventually happen to a popular, pure FOSS project. It seems contrary to the vision of free software, and yet it’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The OpenSSL project, home of the world's most popular SSL/TLS and cryptographic toolkit, is changing its license to the Apache License v 2.0 ...

Unlike many enterprise software engineers, I have the good luck to work for a company that not only permits, but actively encourages its developers to use open source in their projects. However, as ...

Responding to student interest and a growing industry demand for workers with such skills, Rochester Institute of Technology is launching the nation’s first interdisciplinary minor in free and open ...