With Linux or the Apache web server, everyone gets access to the source code, whether you’re a large organization or a hobbyist at home. Anyone can make derivative works and distribute it.

Apache An open source web server, a software foundation, and a permissive license that, unlike the GPL, allows source code to be mixed into non-open source, commercial code. Open core software ...

That might change, though, given the hard work of [PortalRunner]. Quite literally, [PortalRunner] hacked the Source engine and Portal 2 to actually run a working HTTP web server.

During the past year, the source code of this project had been used in three different ransomware families targeting web servers. Three ransomware families spawned from the GitHub project ...

The open-source project has rolled out a security fix for CVE-2021-41773, for which public cyberattack exploit code is circulating. Apache Software has quickly issued a fix for a zero-day security ...

"GlassFish" lets outsiders tinker with Java server source code but stops well short of making it actual open-source software.

Without developers managing the Boa web server, its known vulnerabilities could allow attackers to silently gain access to networks by collecting information from files," Microsoft said.