State of the Source Presentations Available to Watch
Did you miss State of the Source? Not to worry we have you covered! Presentations from our first ever world wide summit are available to view on our Youtube channel. You…
Press Releases
Released: Report on Our Member Survey
This year, OSI Board member Elana Hashman began a project to survey OSI’s stakeholders. This was the first time in our history that we have formally surveyed people in our…
OSI Seeks to Hire Executive Director
It is with great pride and excitement that I announce that OSI, as of today, is embarking on a search for an Executive Director. This is the culmination of many…
The .NET Foundation Joins the Open Source Initiative’s Affiliate Program
PALO ALTO, Calif., October 20th, 2020 — The Open Source Initiative® (OSI), the international authority in open source licensing, is excited to announce the affiliate membership of the .NET Foundation,…
Two Affiliate Events Later This Month
October in 2019 was packed with opportunities to catch up — in person — with many of our open source friends. This year is different, but there are still opportunities…
Join us for OSI’s first State of the Source Summit!
We need open source now, more than ever. Now is the time to foster global connections, knowledge exchange and cross-border collaboration. Only by working together can we make bigger strides…
Announcing OSI’s New Interim General Manager
The Open Source Initiative is bringing in Deb Nicholson as its new Interim General Manager. Nicholson will be supporting the organization through a period of growth and introspection over the upcoming year as stakeholders continue building on the non-profit’s past successes. She will be overseeing day-to-day operations, including marketing, staffing and infrastructure, as well as supporting board and volunteer activities.
OSI’s President, Josh Simmons elaborates, “We’re thrilled to welcome Deb as an Interim General Manager at OSI. Her credentials are top notch, and she’s well respected within the free and open source software communities… I couldn’t ask for a better partner as OSI works through its second major transformation! Deb’s roots in the software freedom community and at Conservancy bode well for our movements as we strive to present a more unified front to advance our shared goals.”
February 2020 License-Discuss Summary
In February, the License-Discuss mailing list discussed the OSD and compulsory user reporting, the delisting of licenses, the MIT-Clone and conern on the copyright notice, GDPR/CCPA and the Cryptographic Autonomy License (Beta 4), the CERN Open Hardware License 2.0, Ethical Open Source Licensing – Persona non Grata Preamble, Fairness vs Mission Objectives of the OSI, ethical open source licensing – Dual Licensing for Justice, discouraging governments from creating bespoke licenses, and the psychological relationship between an author and the work.
License Review Process Update
We’d like to update you on some work we have underway on improving the OSI’s work on reviewing open source licenses. We’re working on two initiatives, one substantive and one…
OASIS Open Joins Open Source Initiative
Shared vision and combined resources extend both organizations’ ability to advance open source through standards.
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 30, 2020 — The Open Source Initiative® (OSI), the internationally recognized steward of the Open Source Definition and open source licenses, is excited to announce the Affiliate Membership of OASIS Open, a global nonprofit consortium managing a broad technical agenda encompassing cybersecurity, blockchain, privacy, cryptography, cloud computing, IoT, urban mobility, emergency management, and other content technologies.
Celebrating GNOME’s Patent Settlement
The Open Source Initiative would like to congratulate the GNOME Foundation on its recent settlement of the patent lawsuit alleging that the Shotwell software infringed patents owned by Rothschild Patent…
State of the Source Summit
A World-wide Open Source Summit: Build your local community, while engaging the global community.
The State of the Source Summit invites open source communities of practice from around the world to organize and contribute to a global conversation on the current state of open source software: non-technical issues that foster development and community, the licenses that enable collaboration, the practices that promote contribution, and the issues confronting cooperation.
Conference Goals
- Share the current state of open source licenses: understanding their value and impediments to further adoption.
- Identify current, non-technical, issues affecting open source software, development, and communities through the lenses of developers, companies, and projects.
- Conceptualize and plan for what the future may hold for open source software as a community and the Open Source Initiative as an organization.