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OSI Winter 2020 Newsletter

Welcome to the Open Source Initiative's quarterly newsletter. We hope the information shared in each edition provides you with interesting...

April 1, 2020 Post
Ensuring Openness Through and In Open Source Licensing

It simply may not be clear to those encountering open source for the first time the scope of the Open...

October 30, 2017 Post
December 2019 License-Review Summary

License-Review mailing list topics for December 2019: ESA Permissive PL v2.3, Mulan Permissive Software License v1 and v2 LGPL-2+-KDE (Legacy)...

April 28, 2020 Post
OSI Spring 2020 Newsletter

Welcome to the Open Source Initiative's quarterly newsletter. We hope the information shared in each edition provides you with interesting...

July 1, 2020 Post
OSI Board reponds to FCO Questionaire concerning CPTN Transaction

Towards the end of March, we received a message from the German Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office or FCO) advising us...

April 7, 2011 Post
OSI Board Meeting Minutes, Thursday, February 14, 2019 Minutes

Quorum Quorum reached and meeting called to order at 17:34 UTC Attendees Board Members Carol Simon Patrick Chris Faidon Richard...

March 30, 2019 Meeting Minutes
OpenJS Foundation Joins Open Source Initiative as Newest Affiliate Member

Membership emphasizes growing outreach and engagement with broader software and technology communities. PALO ALTO, Calif., June 9, 2020 -- The...

June 9, 2020 Post
OSI Expands to China with KAIYUANSHE Joining as Latest Affiliate Member

Shared mission of raising awareness and adoption through community building extends international development, collaboration and advocacy for open source software....

January 10, 2016 Post
State of the Source at ATO 2025: Licensing 201

In October, the OSI hosted the State of the Source Track at All Things Open designed to connect developers with...

October 31, 2025 Post
Nick Taylor: Building My Career and Community Through Open Source

Hi, I’m Nick Taylor (@nickytonline), a Developer Advocate and software engineer based in Montreal, Canada. Over the past several years,...

May 20, 2025 Page
Nolan Lawson: The changing Open Source landscape, one maintainer’s perspective

I first got involved in Open Source in the early 2010’s. Back then, it was a fun hobby project –...

May 20, 2025 Page
August 10th 2016 Board Meeting Minutes

QuorumQuorum reached and meeting called to order at xx:xx UTC (12:05  EDT).AttendeesBoard MembersItaloPatrickMollyAllisonMikeLeslieDeb (12:06)Zack (12:13)GuestsExpected, but Not PresentPaultagJoshSent RegretsRichard (Richard...

October 11, 2016 Meeting Minutes