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Prusa Research introduces the Open Community License to protect open source 3D printing hardware — new rules aimed at addressing industry abuses

Josef Prusa has long been a champion of Open Source, but defending its use has been an uphill battle. Last July, he surprised no one at all when he announced that “open hardware desktop 3D printing is ...
TechCrunch

Open source licenses: Everything you need to know

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.
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AI Drives Need for New Open Source Licenses – Linux Publishes the OpenMDW License

For many reasons, existing open source licenses are not a good fit for AI. Simply put, AI involves more than just software and most open source licenses are designed primarily for software. Much work ...
ZDNet

Dumping open source for proprietary rarely pays off: Better to stick a fork in it

LONDON -- Over the past decade, companies such as Redis, Elastic, MongoDB, and HashiCorp have abandoned their open-source license roots and switched to proprietary models. The companies cite ...
ZDNet

Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly

LONDON -- Fitting artificial intelligence into open source isn't easy. Yes, AI foundations rest firmly on open source. And yes, a handful of important programs, such as IBM's Granite Large Language ...