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?

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 ...

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 ...

Viswam.AI, a ioint initiative of Swecha and IIIT Hyderabad, and SFLC.in released the new Draft License for consultation aimed to address critical gaps in current open source licenses, regarding data ...

OpenAI has released two new open-weight language models under the permissive Apache 2.0 license. These models are designed to deliver strong real-world performance while running on consumer hardware, ...

Nvidia Corp. has released more than a half-dozen artificial intelligence models designed for autonomous systems such as self-driving cars. The algorithms, which are all available under an open-source ...