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9 articles on Licensing — news, releases, guides and analysis from the SourceFeed engine.

AI Agents Just Rewrote the Case for Open-Source Devtools

David Crawshaw argues agents make personal forks economical at last — he's mostly right, and vendors should worry.

David Crawshaw argues agents make forking cheaper than configuring. He's right — but only for single-player tools.

The steering committee will refuse LLM-generated patches over 15 lines — the opposite bet from LLVM's human-in-the-loop policy.

Google dissolved the team, not the database, and the real migration risk was never Google's org chart.

The Apache-2.0 training library matters more than the non-commercial weights it ships with.

Dialog’s removal finishes a long cleanup that mostly matters to teams embedding or redistributing FreeBSD.

The game engine's new policy highlights a growing crisis: LLM-generated pull requests are burning out open-source maintainers.

The Papermark controversy shows why AI-assisted speed runs cannot bypass the legal realities of software licensing.

A 40,000-workload migration shows what happens when a perpetual license meets a subscription-only vendor.