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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Cover image for Growing Your Open Source Community in 2025: Strategies for Sustainable Projects

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Jun 16

Growing Your Open Source Community in 2025: Strategies for Sustainable Projects

#webdev #opensource #programming #tutorial

3 min read

Zhang Wei

May 13

Unveiling the zlib License: A Comprehensive Analysis of Open Source Licensing

#zliblicense #opensource #licensing

7 min read

May 13

Unveiling the Vim License: A Comprehensive Examination of Open Source Fair Code Licensing

#opensource #vimlicense #faircodelicensing

7 min read

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Astrodevil

Jun 16

iPhone Use AI Agents are here - Build Your 1st Computer Use AI Agent with Claude 4!🔥

#ai #opensource #python #programming

5 min read

May 17

Day 6 – “Where Did It Go?!” | Mastering the find, head, tail, and wc Commands in RHEL 9

#linux #opensource #beginners #cloudwhistler

3 min read

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May 13

Coliving App Open-Source Launch

#coliving #opensource #digitalnomad #travel

3 min read

May 13

Unveiling IBM Public License 1.0: A Holistic Perspective on Open Source Licensing, Fair Code, and Future Trends

#ibmpubliclicense10 #opensource #faircode

9 min read

Yourdev

May 17

I Tested hcef: A Native C++ Encryption Module for Node.js That Deserves More Attention

#opensource #cpp #node #security

2 min read

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Dev

Jun 16

🚀 Open Source Flutter Restaurant POS – Looking for Contributors!

#flutter #opensource #dart #postgressql

1 min read

May 13

Unveiling GNU All-Permissive License: A Comprehensive Deep-Dive

#gnuallpermissivelicense #opensource #licensingmodels

8 min read

신규범

May 13

The Evolution of Information Sharing — from Stone Tablets to Solo Links

#discuss #webdev #react #opensource

1 min read

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SOG-web

May 17

Breaking Up With ORMs – Part One: Reclaiming Control with Custom SQL Adapters

#backenddevelopment #webdev #opensource #database

4 min read

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Maksim Balabash

May 26

How to Create a VSCode Extension That Uses a Machine Learning Model Under the Hood

#opensource #ai #learning #javascript

11 min read

xuri

May 12

Excelize 2.9.1 Released - Powerful open-source library for spreadsheet (Excel) document

#go #excel #excelize #opensource

4 min read

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May 12

Kubernetes: Handling Crashes, Scaling, and Rollbacks

#ai #productivity #devops #opensource

4 min read

Cover image for What Angular Libraries Are You Missing? Let’s Build Them – Together (Open Source)

Reza Fa

May 12

What Angular Libraries Are You Missing? Let’s Build Them – Together (Open Source)

#angular #community #opensource

1 min read

Cover image for 🛡️ A Swahili SMS Scam Dataset and a Machine Learning Tool to Use It

Jun 15

🛡️ A Swahili SMS Scam Dataset and a Machine Learning Tool to Use It

#datascience #machinelearning #opensource #python

3 min read

May 12

MIT License Explained: A Deep Dive into Open Source Permissiveness and Fair Code Practices

#mitlicense #opensource #faircode

9 min read

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Code Area

May 12

4 Best Frontend Frameworks in 2025: Which One Should You Choose?

#beginners #devops #opensource #programming

2 min read

May 12

Plexe - ML models from a prompt

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #data

3 min read

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Leonardo Gonçalves

May 12

Virtual RAM & CPU in JavaScript

#programming #javascript #opensource #node

1 min read

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Dmitry

May 12

Built nerdlog: fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram and no central server

#opensource #terminal #devops #monitoring

3 min read

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Code Area

May 12

The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Becoming a Developer

#ai #beginners #devops #opensource

2 min read

May 12

What is BigchainDB? Exploring Open Source Funding, Licensing, and the Future of Blockchain Databases

#bigchaindb #blockchain #opensource

8 min read

Zhang Wei

May 12

What is cosmos-python? The Open Source Business Model, Funding, and Community

#cosmospython #blockchain #opensource

8 min read

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