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?

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 ...

The new Open Community License (OCL) differed from open source licenses in that it prohibits the use of the designs for commercial gain, or at least without signing a separate licensing agreement with ...

License scanning is available now to all Legit customers as part of our SCA capabilities. For existing customers: License detection is already running across your dependencies. You can enable policy ...

Open source doesn’t guarantee responsible AI. But it increasingly makes responsible evaluation possible for smaller organizations.

Open-source risk is often simplistically reduced to security headlines about the latest vulnerability or bug count. Security matters, of course, but it is only one dimension of a broader risk surface ...

Open-source software and Linux are no longer fringe technologies in 2026. After decades of steady adoption, they now sit at the core of enterprise computing, cloud infrastructure, and the ...

The popularity of open-source software continues to grow because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...