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Electronics biz Vizio may be required by a California court to provide source code for its SmartCast TV software, which is allegedly based on open source code licensed under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1.

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 ...

As far as we're aware, the full talks of Richard Stallman (Finland, Sweden, Rome) aren't available online and probably will never be, unlike next week's (in Germany). But the organiser in Sweden ...

Simone, Daniela; (2014). Copyright or Copyleft? Wikipedia as a Turning Point for Authorship. King's Law Journal, 25(1) pp. 102-124. Wikipedia, the popular online ...

In the race to cut the time and expense involved in software development, developers may be endangering future business deals in favor of speed. That’s because programs using code created with ...

Vitalik Buterin now supports copyleft licenses to protect open-source innovation in crypto. He believes the crypto industry is too competitive for permissive licensing alone. Copyleft ensures shared ...

Vitalik Buterin, the mind behind the Ethereum blockchain, has performed a U-turn and now advocates for copyleft licensing in Web3 development. In a candid blog post, Buterin walks readers through his ...

Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s co-founder, is shaking things up in the open-source world. In a blog post from July 7, he announced that he’s rethinking his long-standing support for permissive software ...

Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin has formalized his stance on software publishing and now advocates for slightly more restrictive “copyleft” licenses, according to a new blog on Monday. According ...

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 ...