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  • Lex Pan Law: Why we support the OSI

    Lex Pan Law: Why we support the OSI

    Lex Pan Law is a full-service technology and intellectual property law firm based in Portland, Oregon. With a deep background in patent law also provides specialized advice to engineering teams and engineering management about the complex intersection between technology and the law. Having a long-standing interest in the intersection of copyright law and technology, the…

  • How OSI will renew its Board of Directors in 2022

    How OSI will renew its Board of Directors in 2022

    In the next few months, the OSI board of directors will renew four of its seats with an open election process among its full individual members and affiliates. There will be two elections in March: The Affiliate organizations will elect two directors and Individual members will elect two directors.

  • Spotlight on Libre Space Foundation, OSI Associate Member

    Spotlight on Libre Space Foundation, OSI Associate Member

    OSI Associate Member Libre Space Foundation (LSF) is a non-profit foundation registered in Greece whose vision is “an Open and Accessible Outer Space for all.” Recently, on behalf of the OpenSatCom.org activity of the European Space Agency, they partnered with Inno3 to investigate open source development models in the satellite communications industry and share their…

  • Google Open Source Programs Office: The business impact of open source

    Google Open Source Programs Office: The business impact of open source

    Creative, exciting applications of open source software can be found worldwide, and who better to share the details of new use cases than the practitioners themselves. In this blog series we’ll feature guests who told their open source stories during Practical Open Source Information (POSI) 2021, an online conference hosted by OSI. Check this channel…

  • The price for software security and maintainer burnout / OSI News & Updates

    The price for software security and maintainer burnout 2022 started reminding us that software security is a problem not only for open source packages. At the same time, “how to remunerate open source maintainers?” is a question with impossibly numerous answers: we need focus to find different solutions for different problems. Lots of security issues…

  • Open@RIT: Helping Students Embrace the Power of Open Source

    Open@RIT: Helping Students Embrace the Power of Open Source

    Creative, exciting applications of open source software can be found worldwide, and who better to share the details of new use cases than the practitioners themselves. In this blog series we’ll feature guests who told their open source stories during Practical Open Source Information (POSI) 2021, an online conference hosted by OSI. Five blogs will…

  • Results from the first new members campaign

    Results from the first new members campaign

    We’re welcoming 1,354 new members to the Open Source Initiative. The membership drive we launched at the end of 2021 surpassed our expectations.

  • ClearlyDefined is clearly making progress

    ClearlyDefined is a central, curated data store for Open Source Software licenses.

  • CodeSee: Why we support the OSI

    CodeSee: Why we support the OSI

    This month, we’re pleased to spotlight one of our sponsors, CodeSee, and learn why open source is important to their organization.

  • December 2021 Newsletter

    The intriguing implications of SFC v Vizio A couple of weeks ago, the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) filed suit against television maker Vizio, alleging that Vizio took advantage of open source software without playing by open source rules. It’s a shame that SFC had to take this step, but I think it’s a milestone moment…

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