With an understanding of what open source licenses are and their benefits, it’s also useful to know what are the main categories of these licenses, the different types, and their requirements. It’s ...

Learn what open source licenses are, which one to choose, and why it matters.

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

A scene from the KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2018 open-source conference in Shanghai. (Cloud Native Computing Foundation Photo, via Flickr.) At the peak of its power, open-source software is having an ...

Movable Type created an open source version (called MTOS) of its web publishing software in 2007 under a “copyleft” GPL open source license, a move that positioned it more closely to WordPress.