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GNOME patent troll stripped of patent rights

By OSI Staff on 28 Apr 2022
A recent decision at the US patent office may well give patent trolls cause to steer clear of open source projects – even more than the fierce resistance the community impressively funded and mounted in the GNOME case.

A win for open is a win for all: Interview with The Open Organization

By OSI Staff on 26 Apr 2022
We spoke with Bryan Behrenshausen, Community Architect for the Open Organization in the Open Source Program Office at Red Hat, about this inspiring project and get his perspective on all things open source.

Join us at PyCon 2022

By OSI Staff on 21 Apr 2022
We are very excited to be attending our first in-person event in over 2 years! PyCon has always been one of our favorites and we are looking forward to returning

Let’s get open source voices heard by the EU on standards essential patents

By Simon Phipps on 14 Apr 2022
Now is a crucial time for the open source community to respond to the consultation launched by the European Commission on standards essential patents (SEPs).

User beware: Modified AGPLv3 removes freedoms, adds legal headaches

By OSI Staff on 7 Apr 2022
Courts interpret the meaning of legal agreements and, no matter how skilled the drafter, the outcome may be unexpected. This is one reason why the license review process is so rigorous. An OSI-approved license may be used for decades to come and we do our best to make sure that they will be interpreted as intended.

Google OSPO: Why we support the OSI

By OSI Staff on 5 Apr 2022
We asked Google OSPO Director Chris Dibona to share the organization’s intrinsic ties to open source, its reasons for supporting the Open Source Initiative, and its hopes for the open source movement.
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