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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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Baserow for Baserow

Mar 19 '25

Baserow 1.32: Dashboards, enhanced Airtable import, SSO for Application Builder, and more - Open Source Airtable Alternative

#news #opensource #productivity #database

1 min read

May 29 '25

library ECV-COMPONENT

#webdev #programming #typescript #opensource

2 min read

Apr 22 '25

Simplify Many-to-Many Relationships in Yii2 with yii2-m2m-behavior

#php #yii2 #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Zzemar

Mar 19 '25

open-source project. The goal is to develop both a desktop application and a web shop.

#opensource #programming #webdev #beginners

4 min read

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Hiroshi Tsubokawa

Apr 22 '25

✨ Introducing Turbine – A Scripting Language for C and C++ Projects

#programming #c #opensource #cpp

2 min read

Project Au Lait

Apr 22 '25

SVQK - A Web Application Development Platform Using Svelte + Quarkus

#svelte #quarkus #playwright #opensource

2 min read

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Apr 22 '25

Are Google Ads Still Worth It in 2025? A Practical Guide for Beginners

#beginners #googleads #opensource

3 min read

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Marc Anton Dahmen

Mar 23 '25

How to Create a Multilingual Website Using Automad 2

#webdev #php #opensource #cms

4 min read

Mar 19 '25

Unveiling the Nuances of LGPL 2.1: A Deep Dive into Open Source Licensing

#lgpl21 #opensource #licensing

3 min read

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Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 21 '25

Mastering the mv Command in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Zhang Wei

Mar 19 '25

Unveiling GNU FDL 1.2: A Deep Dive into Free Documentation Licensing

#gnufdl12 #freedocumentationlicense #opensource

3 min read

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Takashi Masuda for ROUTE06, Inc.

Apr 21 '25

What We Did to Gain 3,000 GitHub Stars for the Liam Repository

#github #opensource #marketing #liamerd

7 min read

Mar 19 '25

Exploring the Simplicity and Impact of the Expat License

#expatlicense #opensource #softwarelicensing

3 min read

Mar 19 '25

Unveiling Cube License: An In-Depth Exploration of Fair Code and Open Source Innovation

#cubelicense #faircode #opensource

3 min read

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Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Apr 1 '25

Automate 90% of Your Work with AI Agents (Real Examples & Code Inside) 🚀 🤖

#programming #ai #opensource #productivity

15 min read

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