Tag: copyright
The Challenges of Using AI Tools to Generate Code
Enterprises must understand the obligations that underline OSS licences and adopt proactive measures to meet them while using AI-generated code. Otherwise, they may end...
Check Before You Ship Software
While open source software is free and has several advantages, it does have compliance and licence requirements, as well as intellectual property rights. It...
The What, Why and How of the GPL
Much of the world’s most important, commercially significant software is distributed under copyright licensing terms that give recipients freedom to copy, modify and redistribute...
A Peek into Open Source Licences
Open source is the mantra of today's tech world. While it is being used in that personal computer sitting on your desk, it is...
FOSS is __FUN__: The Fifth Freedom
Stallman's classic definition of open source speaks of the four freedoms -- the freedom to run the program in any way one likes, the...
An Interview with Richard Stallman on Freedom, Android, Amazon, Facebook, Steve...
Any government that tells people to teach proprietary software is essentially delivering the country into the hands of a company.
Before you even speak a...
Protecode: Software License Management is Like Any Other Quality Management Process
Someone rightly observed: "All code is guilty, until proven innocent." Ask the members of any software development team, and they will agree that tracking...
Tracking the DNA of Your Android Code
In my previous article, we explored a process that developer teams can follow to manage the source code for software-related product development, using the...
FreedomYUG: GPL v4 — A New Decade of Delight
Fresh Thinking on Freedom in the 21st Century.
Within days, your life is going to be touched by the next ten years of the new...