“What is the point in obtaining a copyright in software? Not much, if Google can copy 11,500 lines of your code and it can still be a fair use. Copyrights just don ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Google is reportedly offering to pay select Android developers for source-code access. Here’s what Play Store developers ...

"Our bad," declares company, deciding that the Mozilla Public License is once again an option for Google Code projects. Also added: the Eclipse Public License. Stephen Shankland Former Principal ...

Until June 14 at 11:59 p.m. PT, you can get a MacMagic lifetime license on sale for only $23. Just use code MACSAVE. macOS ...

You don’t need a computer science degree, a college education, a state license, or anyone’s permission to write code. Just do it. One of the coolest things about software development is that you don’t ...

At first glance, Matthew Macy seemed like a perfectly reasonable choice to port WireGuard into the FreeBSD kernel. WireGuard is an encrypted point-to-point tunneling protocol, part of what most people ...

A new open-source build of the popular Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor stripped of Microsoft customizations and released under a "real" open-source license is now available. VSCodium is not a fork ...

Earlier this year the company that’s now in charge of Winamp announced plans to release the source code for Windows music player that was hugely popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s at the dawn ...