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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...