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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 ...
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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 ...
Morningstar

Panasonic Automotive Systems achieves conformance with the international standard ISO/IEC 5230 (OpenChain) on open source license

YOKOHAMA, Japan, Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; President: Masashi Nagayasu) has achieved conformance with the ...
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 ...
TechCrunch

Why the ‘spirit’ of open source means much more than a license

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as “open source” ...