We shared some big news last week—we’ve raised an additional $25 million in Series B funding. Our goal is to scale Tidelift for creators and users, ...
When you download a new open source package, how much time do you spend much time thinking about the person who actually wrote the code?
The past few months have seen an explosion of new open source licenses and license-like documents. A proposal from MongoDB has generated intense ...
Before I helped start Tidelift, I built a private legal practice focused on the needs of open source developers. My clients spanned from individuals ...
Redis Labs, a company building commercial complements to the Redis data store, just published a “Commons Clause” that attempts to prevent commercial ...
Back in February, our own Luis Villa spoke at RedMonk’s Monkigras conference in London. This year’s topic was one very near and dear to our hearts: ...
One of the hidden gems of the free and open source software world is the Free Software Foundation-Europe’s annual Legal and Licensing Workshop, an ...
In my last post, I talked about how much (or little!) we know about the licenses in the 30+ package managers and 2+ million packages in libraries.io, ...
As open source has grown, it has also gotten more granular. Modern apps often depend on hundreds or thousands of open source packages, not counting ...
