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” ...

In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating proprietary versions that appear both functional and legally distinct. The partly ...

Recently I was watching a keynote address by Canonical founder and creator of Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, who spoke about his vision for Ubuntu to provide quality support and security maintenance ...

A new report showcases the 20 top-trending open source startups around the world, more than half of which are closely aligned with AI. Last year’s report demonstrated that AI and data infrastructure ...

The founding members note that they have designed the DocLang AI-native standard in order to “revolutionise enterprise document processing” (no less), by providing a unified, AI-readable format to ...

A growing body of academic research warns that AI-assisted “vibe coding,” where language models assemble software from ...