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  • OSI Standards Newsletter Q2 2020

    Welcome to the 2020 mid-year newsletter from OSI’s Standards and Policy office. This update is for Advisory Board representatives and Working Group members (see below) and may be distributed within their respective organisations. Because distribution cannot be controlled we have omitted any information that is privileged in some way (such as under Committee or Chatham…

  • 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 Imaging. The settlement was a huge achievement — not only did GNOME pay nothing, but Rothschild Patent Imaging and its owner, Leigh M. Rothschild, have…

  • State of the Source Summit

    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…

  • 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 Open Source Initiative® (OSI), the international authority in open source licensing, is excited to announce the affiliate membership of the OpenJS Foundation, the premier home for critical open source JavaScript projects, including Appium, Dojo, jQuery,…

  • February 2020 License-Review Summary

    In February, the License-Review mailing list discussed the Cryptographic Autonomy License (Beta 4), its resolution, and the resolution of the Mulan PSL V2. 

  • Charting a Course for 2020 and Beyond

    This is an interesting time for open source. An approach to intellectual property that was once seen as radical is now mainstream. In 2011, 13 years after “open source” was coined and the Open Source Initiative was founded to promote and protect it, O’Reilly Media declared that open source had won. In 2016, WIRED followed…

  • January 2020 License-Review Summary

    In January, the License-Review mailing list discussed the Mulan PSL V2, the Cryptographic Autonomy License (Beta 4), the resolution of the Vaccine License, the BSD-1-Clause [Legacy], and the resolution of the CasperLabs Open Source License (COSL).

  • January 2020 License-Discuss Summary

    In January, the License-Discuss mailing list discussed Dual Licensing, copyrights on APIs, the decision process regarding license review submissions, AGPL evaluation and real world license testing, and the ZFS kernel code on Linux.

  • Committing to Community throughout the COVID-19 Crisis

    Committing to Community throughout the COVID-19 Crisis

    Each year the Open Source Initiative relies on the dedicated contributions of individual open source developers and advocates, OSI members, and corporate sponsors. This year, with the global pandemic now affecting so many communities, funding priorities have rightly changed: new initiatives that need dedicated support have emerged, yet many fundamental organizations still need continued support…

  • December 2019 License-Review Summary

    In December, the License-Review mailing list went over the ESA Permissive PL v2.3, the Mulan Permissive Software License v1 and v2, the LGPL-2+-KDE (Legacy), the Cryptographic Autonomy License (Beta 4), the CasperLabs Open Source License (COSL), the BSD-1-Clause (Legacy), and the MIT-0 license.

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