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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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May 18 '25

Unveiling OpenLDAP Public License 2.8: A Comprehensive Deep Dive into Fair Code Licensing

#openldap #faircodelicensing #opensource

8 min read

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May 19 '25

What’s New in vite-plugin-create v1.0.1 — Or How I Took Another Step Toward the Perfect Generator

#webdev #opensource #vite #react

2 min read

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Anthony Max for HMPL.js

Jun 17 '25

I replaced Alpine.js in my app with this alternative 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

4 min read

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Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jun 21 '25

Guide to Install Kimi-Dev 72B: The Most Powerful Open-Source Coding LLM

#ai #coding #opensource #vibecoding

6 min read

Zyntraxis

May 18 '25

The Legend of Zyntraxis

#opensource #programming #systems #linux

1 min read

NocoBase

May 19 '25

How the No.1 AI Voice Recorder Brand Built Its Internal Systems

#opensource #tooling #ai #systems

5 min read

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Aditi Bindal for NodeShift

Jun 21 '25

How to Install and Run MonkeyOCR Locally

#ai #opensource #vision #productivity

7 min read

May 18 '25

Unveiling Open Software License 2.0: A Comprehensive Exploration of Fair Code Licensing

#opensoftwarelicense #faircodelicensing #opensource

7 min read

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baxtiyor qurbonnazarov

May 18 '25

DevConnect loyihamga yordam kerak!

#webdev #programming #collabrator #opensource

1 min read

May 18 '25

Python Monorepos & the Polylith Developer Experience [video]

#python #polylith #fosdem #opensource

1 min read

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Jun 21 '25

Maintenance releases 0.5X.0 of the GitHub Action for Checking Spelling

#release #githubaction #opensource

2 min read

Practical Developer

Jun 20 '25

Comprehensive Guide: Top Open-Source LLM Observability Tools in 2025

#opensource #ai #llm #observability

5 min read

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Tsabary

May 22 '25

From AGPL 3.0 to Apache 2.0 - Why I've changed the license on 90% of my project

#opensource #webdev #react #frontend

4 min read

Zhang Wei

May 18 '25

Unveiling GNU General Public License 2.0: Exploring Open Source Fairness and Developer Sustainability

#gpl20 #opensource #developersustainability

9 min read

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Jun 20 '25

ArtistAssistApp's June 2025 Update is Here!

#showdev #opensource #pwa #react

6 min read

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