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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.

submission guidelines

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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🧠 The Secret Sauce Behind Web3 Growth? Referral Architectures That Actually Scale

#webdev #web3 #productivity #opensource

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Leo M Cole

Apr 21 '25

Introducing AEPF: A Collaborative, Open-Source Ethical AI Initiative

#ai #opensource #ethicalai #git

2 min read

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NocoBase

Apr 21 '25

Top 40 Open-source Developer Tools with the Most GitHub Stars

#opensource #ai #github #developer

14 min read

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Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 20 '25

Mastering the cp Command in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Mar 17 '25

Unveiling a New Perspective on Software Licensing

#softwarelicensing #beerwarelicense #opensource

3 min read

Mar 17 '25

Exploring the Vision Behind Artistic License 1.0

#artisticlicense10 #softwarelicensing #opensource

3 min read

Mar 17 '25

Unleashing Freedom in Software Licensing

#wtfpl2 #softwarelicensing #opensource

4 min read

Laetitia Perraut

Mar 17 '25

Unveiling the Future of Ethical Licensing: A Deep Dive into Hippocratic License 2.1

#hippocraticlicense21 #ethicallicensing #opensource

3 min read

Laetitia Perraut

Mar 19 '25

Unveiling GNU FDL 1.1: A Deep Dive into Free Documentation Licensing

#gnufdl11 #documentationlicensing #opensource

3 min read

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MuhammadHafijur

Mar 17 '25

Free and Open Source image blending tool that lets you create stunning image effects, generate Tailwind CSS code, and more!

#webdev #opensource #frontend #tailwindcss

1 min read

HoangP

Mar 17 '25

An open-source library about Implicit Deep Learning

#opensource #deeplearning

1 min read

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Zayyad Muhammad Sani

Mar 17 '25

Announcing Official Support for OpenFeature

#openfeature #opensource #featureflags #configcat

5 min read

Kaustubh

Mar 17 '25

🚀 Introducing Pblog – A Dockerized TUI Blogging App

#docker #opensource #postgres #go

3 min read

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NocoBase

Mar 17 '25

Usage of Markdown Template Variables

#opensource #lowcode #markdown #nocode

6 min read

Mar 17 '25

Unveiling Lucent Public License 1.02: A Balanced Approach to Fair Code

#lucentpubliclicense102 #faircode #opensource

3 min read

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