The National Law Review

AI Drives Need for New Open Source Licenses – Linux Publishes the OpenMDW License

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JD Supra

Open-Source Software: Common Areas of Inquiry in M&A Due Diligence

Open-source software (OSS) is widely used throughout the software industry and can generally be incorporated into commercial products or ...
diginomica

What OpenMDW 1.1 guarantees an enterprise that an Apache license on model weights can't

The Linux Foundation's updated open model license is built to give anyone using an open AI model the rights they assume they ...
ZDNet

Redis returns to open source with AGPLv3 license but not everyone is happy

Over the last few years, companies like Redis, Elastic, MongoDB, and HashiCorp have abandoned their open-source license roots and switched to proprietary models. However, there is one significant ...
InfoWorld

OSI approves two Microsoft shared source licenses

Microsoft's Public License and Reciprocal License join GNU General Public License and Mozilla Public License as viable avenues for distributing open source code The board of the Open Source Initiative ...
TechCrunch

Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing

With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...
JD Supra

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 ...