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Darshan Sen

Hi, I’m Darshan Sen, an award-winning Governance Member of high-profile Open Source projects such as Node.js and Electron. If you...

May 20, 2025 Page
Ensuring Openness Through and In Open Source Licensing

It simply may not be clear to those encountering open source for the first time the scope of the Open...

October 30, 2017 Post
Open Source Initiative Hosts 2nd Deep Dive AI Event, Aims to Define ‘Open Source’ for AI

The Open Source Definition isn’t directly applicable to AI systems, so global experts will gather to establish shared principles to...

September 11, 2023 Post
What OSI Affiliates Are Doing For Open Source.

The Open Source Initiative has seventy affiliate members. They represent a broad swath of the open source community, representing educational...

October 29, 2019 Post
Open Education and the Shared Roots of Openness

Members Newsletter – March 2026 Dear OSI supporters, Every March, Open Education Week invites us to reflect on something that...

March 11, 2026 Post
Court affirms it’s false advertising to claim software is Open Source when it’s not

Stop saying Open Source when it's not. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a lower...

March 17, 2022 Post
Karl Horky: From Papercuts to Standards

Hi, I’m Karl Horky (GitHub, LinkedIn), Technical Founder at UpLeveled - tech education programs for all skill levels. In an...

May 20, 2025 Page
GUAC adopts license metadata from ClearlyDefined

The software supply chain just gained some transparency thanks to an integration of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) project, ClearlyDefined,...

August 6, 2024 Post
New licensing initiatives for AI training data

Part of the Deep Dive: Data Governance Webinar Series This talk will build on ongoing work by the Centre for Internet and...

October 7, 2025 Page
Towards a definition of “Open Artificial Intelligence”: First meeting recap

The Open Source Initiative recently kicked off a multi-stakeholder process to define machine learning systems that can be characterized as...

July 13, 2023 Post
How Can Open Source Become User-Centric?

  Including design and UX in a true community project is a challenging matter of balance because of the motivational...

August 27, 2017 Post
Should we celebrate the anniversary of open source?

Today in Portland at OSCON, OSI will be celebrating 20 years of open source. I’ve had a few comments along...

July 18, 2018 Post