Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin now backs open-source licenses, arguing they better promote open innovation as crypto becomes more “competitive and mercenary.” Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin ...

DUBLIN, Ireland --Software that is placed under "copyleft" -- as opposed to copyright -- may be in a legal limbo and is still reliant on the concept of copyright, an Irish legal expert says. But ...

A federal appeals court has overruled a lower court ruling that, if sustained, would have severely hampered the enforceability of free software licenses. The lower court had found that redistributing ...

No one would confuse cyber-lawyer Lawrence Lessig with Homer Simpson – symbol for all that is dumb about America. But Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, has spent a ...

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is an enormous (roughly 6,000-page) treaty between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New ...

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has urged the crypto community to use copyleft open-source licenses. In his latest blog post, the Ethereum co-founder said that the increasing monopolization of power ...