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SparkleShare's funding success shows that grants can revive struggling open source projects-but only if maintainers can find the organizations ready to support them. The post SparkleShare Finds Funding-and an Unintended Lesson for Open Source appeared fir

Vibe coding promises "no-code" software development, but it also raises a hard question: if you're not the human author, can you really slap a GPL header on the project? The post No Human, No Copyright: The Legal Risk of Vibe-Coded Software appeared first

The latest release of the GNU Compiler Collection addresses regressions and serious bugs found in GCC 16.1. The post GCC 16.2 Released With More Than 100 Bugs Fixed appeared first on FOSS Force.

C-Kermit, the long-running communications utility born at Columbia in 1981, is back with its first major new release in 15 years. The post At 45-Years-Old, C-Kermit Gets Its First New Release in 15 Years appeared first on FOSS Force.

Digital sovereignty is no longer just a slogan: German states, Austrian ministries and French agencies are getting on the bandwagon.

Think today's Gimp is complicated? Try the 1996 Motif version, now resurrected as a Flatpak so you can suffer for nostalgia's sake.

Enterprise customers keep Gemini CLI, but open source users are nudged toward a proprietary

Use-after-free bug in Exim's GnuTLS BDAT handling lets remote attackers corrupt memory, with no workaround other than and upgrade.

The PHP Group retires its quirky, and partly non-GPL-compatible licenses in favor of the widely used BSD 3-Clause.

Once a fixture on the lecture circuit, GNU's creator and Free Software's, is re-emerging in the US, updating his message for the 2020s.