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Page created on February 22, 2022 | Last modified on February 22, 2022

  • Welcome new directors

    The 2022 election is over and the OSI has three new Directors Carlo Piana, Josh Berkus and Amanda Brock and one re-elected, Pamela Chestek. Please join me in congratulating them, they’re joining as the Board continues modernizing its function and role. I think we underestimate how much emotional effort goes into running for such a visible…

  • User beware: Modified AGPLv3 removes freedoms, adds legal headaches

    User beware: Modified AGPLv3 removes freedoms, adds legal headaches

    Courts interpret the meaning of legal agreements and, no matter how skilled the drafter, the outcome may be unexpected. This is one reason why the license review process is so rigorous. An OSI-approved license may be used for decades to come and we do our best to make sure that they will be interpreted as…

  • Google OSPO: Why we support the OSI

    Google OSPO: Why we support the OSI

    We asked Google OSPO Director Chris Dibona to share the organization’s intrinsic ties to open source, its reasons for supporting the Open Source Initiative, and its hopes for the open source movement.

  • Six lessons learned from 2022 OSI elections

    Six lessons learned from 2022 OSI elections

    Before I mark a major project as DONE, I always take time to write down what worked, what didn’t and fresh thoughts on how to do things better next time.

  • Simplify Open Source License Compliance

    Simplify Open Source License Compliance

    During our POSI 2021 event Marc Jones, General Counsel at CivicActions shared some of his top-level advice for anyone looking to open source a project

  • Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source

    Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source

    There is a new development that directly impacts the open source community, and it warrants a new commentary. Angry maintainers have started adding code to a small number of open source repositories to protest against the war.

  • Comcast: Why we support the OSI

    Comcast: Why we support the OSI

    We asked our sponsors at Comcast to share the organization’s intrinsic ties to open source, its reasons for supporting the Open Source Initiative, and its hopes for the open source movement.

  • 2022 OSI Board Election Results

    2022 OSI Board Election Results

    The polls just closed, the results are in. Congratulations to the elected directors: Pamela Chestek, Carlo Piana, Josh Berkus and Amanda Brock.

  • Court affirms it’s false advertising to claim software is Open Source when it’s not

    Court affirms it’s false advertising to claim software is Open Source when it’s not

    The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a lower court decision concluding what we’ve always known: that it’s false advertising to claim that software is “open source” when it’s not licensed under an open source license.

  • GitHub’s The ReadME Project elevates the open source community through education and mentorship

    GitHub’s The ReadME Project elevates the open source community through education and mentorship

    GitHub is committed to open source and building solutions that support the open source community. The ReadME Project amplifies the voices of the developer community by telling stories about open source, culture, security, DevOps, and more.

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