OSI Reform At FOSDEM
In preparation for my keynote at FOSDEM, I was interviewed by the team who have just posted the interview. In particular, I noted this background to the governance reform, which…
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FLOSS Body of Knowledge
As courses, certificates, and curricula are created, it’s valuable to bring together people who are working to develop and deliver this material into a community where we can jointly define…
OSI Opposes SOPA and PIPA
The Open Source Initiative Board joined many other civil society organizations as co-signatories of an open letter expressing concern about SOPA and PIPA. As human rights and press freedom advocates,…
Mozilla Releases OSI-Approved MPLv2
Last week saw a quiet landmark in the history of the open source movement with the formal release of version two of the Mozilla Public License (MPLv2) and its approval…
Open Source receives official support in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
On November 11, 2011, the government of the State of Rio de Janeiro – the second largest state in Brazil in terms of population and GDP – published a new…
OSI and the CPTN Transaction
This page preserves the news flow from the OSI home page at the start of 2011 concerning the purchase of Novell’s patent portfolio by the CPTN Consortium. OSI Responds to…
Cape Verde’s Big Win
Last week it was announced that former Cape Verde president Pedro Pires won the $5 million Mo Ibrahim prize for exceptional African leadership. As the citation explains, Cape Verde is…
Shout out to Zoneminder Project
For the first ten years of my open source life, I spent tens of thousands of hours pouring over hundreds of thousands of lines of source code across perhaps a…
OSI Board Members, Officers and Committee Chairs for 2011-2012
In a special board meeting convened for board elections on March 16 2011, the OSI board elected three new illustrious members of the open source community – Jim Jagielski, Karl…
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 that the CPTN transaction had been re-notified to them. That…
It isn’t open source if it doesn’t pass “The patch test”.
I think most know by now that a license is insufficient to make something actually open source. The license just helps pass the sniff test. I use one other test…
Board Meeting Report
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board meet this weekend in San Francisco for its annual face-to-face meeting (generously hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation). There were two significant topics on the…