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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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Laetitia Perraut

May 14 '25

Unveiling CeCILL Free Software License Agreement 2.1: A Comprehensive Exploration

#cecilllicense #opensource #softwarelicensing

8 min read

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May 15 '25

How to Effectively Vet Your Supply Chain for Optimal Performance

#safedep #opensource #security #startup

4 min read

Soulaimen Choura

May 18 '25

SkillTrack AI – A Simple AI-Powered Developer Skill Tracker

#opensource #ai #springboot #developer

1 min read

May 14 '25

Unveiling BSD 1-Clause License: A Comprehensive Exploration for Modern Software Development

#bsd1clauselicense #opensource #blockchainintegration

8 min read

May 14 '25

Unveiling Boost Software License 1.0: A Comprehensive Overview for Open Source Developers

#boostsoftwarelicense10 #opensource #licensing

8 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

May 14 '25

Contributor Spotlight: How I Brought Apache SeaTunnel from First PR to Production

#programming #seatunnel #opensource #dataengineering

4 min read

Jun 17 '25

Chatterbox: Testing an Open-Source TTS Tool & My Impressions

#tts #texttospeech #opensource

8 min read

Jun 16 '25

SNAPSHOTS SAVED MY LIFE (LINUX) , TIMESHIFT

#linux #opensource #backup #devops

1 min read

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Alagendran Ayyadurai for oxyian

May 18 '25

🚀 Boost Your WooCommerce Sales with Faker Review Lite (Yes, It’s That Simple)

#wordpress #woocommerce #seo #opensource

1 min read

Laetitia Perraut

May 14 '25

Unveiling Nokia Reciprocal License: A Comprehensive Deep Dive into Open Source Fairness and Developer Sustainability

#nokiareciprocallicense #opensource #developersustainability

7 min read

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xR0am

May 14 '25

I Built tip.md to Help Open-Source Devs Get Crypto Tips via GitHub READMEs—What Do You Think?

#opensource #github #cryptocurrency

2 min read

Jay Lee

May 18 '25

Solidis – Strongly Typed, Most Tiny Redis Client

#typescript #javascript #redis #opensource

2 min read

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May 18 '25

Just Learned Go – Built My First CLI Tool! ⚡️

#go #cli #opensource #coding

1 min read

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Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Jun 16 '25

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

#webdev #opensource #programming #tutorial

3 min read

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May 29 '25

10 Open Source Gems To Become The Ultimate Developer 🔥

#webdev #javascript #programming #opensource

5 min read

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