Law

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.

This year's top articles focused on trademarks, open source licensing, and compliance. And, of course, copyright trolling.