Ever wanted to know the difference between Apache 2.0 and MIT? Or permissive and copyleft open source licenses? Read on.

There are two broad kinds of licenses that meet the formal open source definition as laid out by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). "Permissive" licenses carry few restrictions in terms of how ...

Formally licensing your research products with a recognized license (for example, through a Creative Commons license or an Open Data Commons license) provides a consistent and easily understandable ...

The CC BY license is the most open license available, and is considered the industry 'gold standard' for open access; it is also preferred by many funders. This license allows readers to copy and ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that ...

ETH Zurich supports open source software, both through the internal use of such products and also by distribution by the ETH Zurich. However, the licensing of software under an open source license ...

When IBM® decided to pursue an open-licensing model for their PowerPC® architecture, they also chose to work closely with Synopsys to improve the reusability of the cores and provide a delivery and ...