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Lex Pan Law: Why we support the OSI

Submitted by Jessica on Tue, 2022-02-08 05:30
Lex Pan Law is a full-service technology and intellectual property law firm based in Portland, Oregon. With a deep background in patent law also provides specialized advice to engineering teams and engineering management about the complex intersection between technology and the law. Having a long-standing interest in the intersection of copyright law and technology, the firm has extensive experience and community contacts in the free and open source licensing world.

How OSI will renew its Board of Directors in 2022

Submitted by Jessica on Thu, 2022-02-03 05:31
In the next few months, the OSI board of directors will renew four of its seats with an open election process among its full individual members and affiliates. There will be two elections in March: The Affiliate organizations will elect two directors and Individual members will elect two directors.

Spotlight on Libre Space Foundation, OSI Associate Member

Submitted by Jessica on Thu, 2022-01-27 08:32
OSI Associate Member Libre Space Foundation (LSF) is a non-profit foundation registered in Greece whose vision is “an Open and Accessible Outer Space for all.” Recently, on behalf of the OpenSatCom.org activity of the European Space Agency, they partnered with Inno3 to investigate open source development models in the satellite communications industry and share their findings in a report.

Google Open Source Programs Office: The business impact of open source

Submitted by Jessica on Thu, 2022-01-20 11:45

Creative, exciting applications of open source software can be found worldwide, and who better to share the details of new use cases than the practitioners themselves. In this blog series we’ll feature guests who told their open source stories during Practical Open Source Information (POSI) 2021, an online conference hosted by OSI. Check this channel for more practical open source stories.

The price for software security and maintainer burnout / OSI News & Updates

Submitted by stefano on Thu, 2022-01-20 07:40

The price for software security and maintainer burnout

2022 started reminding us that software security is a problem not only for open source packages. At the same time, “how to remunerate open source maintainers?” is a question with impossibly numerous answers: we need focus to find different solutions for different problems.

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To promote and protect open source software and communities...

For over 20 years the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has worked to raise awareness and adoption of open source software, and build bridges between open source communities of practice. As a global non-profit, the OSI champions software freedom in society through education, collaboration, and infrastructure, stewarding the Open Source Definition (OSD), and preventing abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement.

Open source software is made by many people and distributed under an OSD-compliant license which grants all the rights to use, study, change, and share the software in modified and unmodified form. Software freedom is essential to enabling community development of open source software.