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In what can only be described as one of the most bizarre events in the history of open source, we find that the massively popular open source libraries, colors.js, and faker.js were sabotaged by their very own maintainer, as I first reported on over the weekend.
Open-source software is more than a license. Below are three recent case studies of OSS being relicensed or going rogue, each providing a practical guide for vetting and using OSS.
Some events playing out in open-source software mirror how the war is unfolding on the ground, and projects supporting Ukraine have been attacked.
Initial versions of 'protestware' module added to npm-ipc wiped data on users' devices