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The implications of distributing software through container images are quite different from those of the package managers many people are familiar with.

A victory for technology companies and innovators who face threats of patent litigation from entities that abuse the system.

Many organizations are scrambling to understand how changes in privacy laws will impact their work.

Conventional wisdom says the Apache License has a "real" patent license. But what about the MIT License?

These recent court cases shed some light on the matter.

Both show that a contributor is allowed to make a contribution and that the project has the right to distribute it. But which one is better?

Take a look at some of the most important legal cases from the past year, including GitHub's revision of their Terms of Service.

For open source software, license information is embedded in the source code. To reduce complexity, you can generate different views.