In my last post, I talked about how much (or little!) we know about the licenses in the 30+ package managers and 2+ million packages in libraries.io, but tried not to talk about specific types of ...

Vitalik.eth.limo explores the transition from favoring permissive to copyleft licenses due to changes in open source dynamics and industry practices. In a recent discourse, Vitalik.eth.limo elucidates ...

Open source components have changed the way we develop software. Ready-made libraries from the open source community enable busy developers to focus on creating the secret sauce needed to release the ...

The following LaTeX code can be stored into a file knapsack.tex, which can be then embedded into a LaTeX document via command \input{knapsack.tex}. \begin{copyleft ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin now backs open-source licenses, arguing they better promote open innovation as crypto becomes more “competitive and mercenary.” Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin ...

Donald Robertson speaks at the FSF Continuing Legal Education seminar in Raleigh, North Carolina, in October 2019. Thirty-five years ago, the Emacs General Public License brought about the age of ...