Proponents of open source software, as the name implies, come down on the side of openness; they feel that people should have the right to access the source code of the software they use. As we ...

The weakness was just one recent example of a backdoor in open source software for attackers to sneak malicious code onto developer and end-user systems. Since then, there have been to compromise ...

Modders have already gotten their own custom GTA 5 builds up and running based on that leaked code, and now the whole community is reckoning with what this means for the future of the open-world game.

Withholding Complete Corresponding Source (CCS) from the open web doesn't violate the GPL itself, but by doing so, Red Hat makes it more difficult for anyone to verify the company's GPL compliance.

Debate about whether China can rely on open source codes, particularly those that originate in the West, has been growing in the country amid rising geopolitical and technology tensions, fanned by ...

The source code Microsoft released this week is not for that multitasking version of DOS 4.00, and Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office was "unable to find the full source code" for MT-DOS when ...