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Beyond SPDX: expanding licenses identified by ClearlyDefined

ClearlyDefined is an Open Source project that helps organizations with supply chain compliance. Until recently, ClearlyDefined's tooling only supported licenses...

July 9, 2024 Post
OSI Spring 2020 Newsletter

Welcome to the Open Source Initiative's quarterly newsletter. We hope the information shared in each edition provides you with interesting...

July 1, 2020 Post
UNICODE LICENSE V3

UNICODE LICENSE V3 COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSION NOTICE Copyright © NOTICE TO USER: Carefully read the following legal agreement. BY DOWNLOADING,...

November 29, 2023 License
“Anyone and Everyone,” Leslie Hawthorn Reflects on 20 Years of Open Source.

I believe there are two big challenge currently facing open source communities: cultivating empathy and sustaining maintainers. The Open Source...

January 25, 2018 Post
RFD: A Nobel Peace Prize for Disarming Software Patents

If Al Gore can win the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing the findings of the scientific community to the political...

October 19, 2007 Post
Regulatory language cannot be the same for all software

In reviewing the language and concepts being used in the various draft bills and directives circulating in Brussels at present,...

May 25, 2023 Post
Bradley Kuhn

About Bradley M. Kuhn is Policy Fellow at Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). Kuhn began work in the software freedom movement in...

February 28, 2025 Board Member
Should OpenRAIL licenses be considered OS AI Licenses?

Part of the Deep Dive: AI Webinar Series Advances in AI have been enabled in-part thanks to open source (OS)...

October 14, 2023 Page
January 2020 License-Discuss Summary

License-Discuss mailing list topics for January 2020: Dual Licensing Copyright on APIs Decision process regarding license review submissions AGPL evaluation...

May 15, 2020 Post
Top Open Source licenses in 2025

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) serves as the premier resource for millions of visitors seeking essential information about OSI-Approved licenses....

December 17, 2025 Post
OSI Board Meeting Minutes, Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Quorum Quorum reached and meeting called to order at 08:06 am PDT. Attendees Board Members Mr. Michael Tiemann, President Ms....

July 7, 2010 Meeting Minutes
MIT No Attribution License

Copyright <YEAR><COPYRIGHT HOLDER> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and...

August 31, 2020 License