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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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Krzysztof Nowicki

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#news #cpp #opensource #productivity

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Alex Enson

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#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

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#webdev #programming #opensource #openai

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#react #tailwindcss #opensource #template

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#webdev #portfolio #react #opensource

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Laetitia Perraut

Mar 14 '25

Unveiling the Samba Public License: A Deep Dive into Fair Code Licensing

#sambapubliclicense #opensource #faircodelicensing

3 min read

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Engaging Exploration of the Open Invention Network License

#openinventionnetwork #opensource #patentprotection

3 min read

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The Allure of the Zlib/Libpng License: A Gateway to Open Source Innovation

#opensource #licensing #innovation

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Zhang Wei

Apr 28 '25

The Holistic Convergence of Blockchain, Open Source, and License Compliance

#blockchain #opensource #licensecompliance

9 min read

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#programming #opensource #haskell

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DASWU

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JuiceFS at Trip.com: Managing 10 PB of Data for Stable and Cost-Effective LLM Storage

#ai #opensource

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#opensource #beginners #webdev

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Sana Muhammad Sadiq

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Understanding the Linux File System Hierarchy

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Mar 13 '25

Unveiling the Legacy of XFree86 License 1.1

#opensource #xfree86license #developercompensation

3 min read

Mar 13 '25

Unveiling the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License: A Deep Dive into Innovation and Fairness

#opensource #ncsalicense #innovation

3 min read

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