GitHub, the popular open-source development community site, is finally getting its licensing act together. It's high time since Black Duck has found that 77-percent of GitHub projects have no ...

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GitHub, however, is taking steps to address the issue. Users are now prompted to select an OSI approved open source license when they create a new code repository on the service.

Published by the Mozilla Foundation in 2012, the Mozilla Public License (MPL) 2.0 is the tenth most popular open source license today as per GitHub’s licenses metric.

Class-Action Lawsuit Claims GitHub Copilot is Violating Open-Source Licenses. GitHub rolled out a slew of product announcements at its annual GitHub Universe developer conference earlier this month.

It violates the licenses that open-source programmers chose and monetizes their code despite GitHub’s pledge never to do so." In their motion to dismiss the lawsuit, Microsoft and GitHub argued just ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license.

Called GitHub Copilot for Business, the new plan, which costs $19 per user per month, comes with all the features in the single-license Copilot tier along with corporate licensing and policy controls.