Open source legal awareness needs to grow
Three things hit me from the results of the 2022 State of Open Source survey announced today. First is the confirmation that open source is everywhere, powering innovation across all…
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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 firm has extensive experience and community contacts in the free and open source licensing world.
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
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 findings in a report.
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
OSI welcomes the Decision of the European Commission
OSI welcomes the Decision of the European Commission on Open Source Software that will enable its software solutions to be publicly accessible whenever there are potential benefits for citizens, companies or other public services.