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International Authority & Recognition

The Open Source Initiative (OSI), Open Source Definition (OSD) and OSI Approved Open Source Licenses are internationally recognized, and affirmed...

April 21, 2015 Page
CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 – Strongly Reciprocal

Preamble CERN has developed this licence to promote collaboration among hardware designers and to provide a legal tool which supports...

January 28, 2021 License
2023 in review: many reasons to celebrate

The year of 2023 was a busy one for the Open Source Initiative (OSI), as we celebrated the 25th Anniversary...

December 13, 2023 Post
May 2019 License-Discuss Summary

In May, the License-Discuss mailing list talked about: * relationship between the License-Review mailing list and the License Comittee *...

June 3, 2019 Post
May 2019 License-Review Summary

In May, the License-Review mailing list saw extensive debate on the Cryptographic Autonomy License. The list also discussed a BSD...

June 3, 2019 Post
Frequently Answered Questions

Here are answers to questions we are frequently asked. If you have a question not addressed here, please contact us. Basics...

October 21, 2007 Page
March 2019 License-Discuss Summary

In March, the License-Discuss mailing list discussed: * the Cryptographic Autonomy License * its interactions with the GDPR * how...

April 1, 2019 Post
CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 – Permissive

Preamble CERN has developed this licence to promote collaboration among hardware designers and to provide a legal tool which supports...

January 28, 2021 License
February 2020 License-Discuss Summary

In February 2020, the License-Discuss mailing list went over the following: OSD and compulsory user reporting Delisting of licenses MIT-Clone...

July 21, 2020 Post
OSI’s Comments to the White House Office of Management and Budget Regarding the “Federal Source Code Policy”

*Note: The following comments were submitted to the White House Office of Management and Budget, regarding the "Federal Source Code...

April 18, 2016 Post
Open Source in 2019

21 years in, the landscape around open source evolved a lot. But is, "open source" enough? According to Thierry Carrez,...

July 30, 2019 Post
January 2019 License-Discuss Summary

In January, the License-Discuss mailing list discussed: * the opensource.dev info site * Open Data * “intimacy” in Open Source...

February 4, 2019 Post