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Handshake’s $200K Pledge Extends Reach of Open Source Initiative

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Nov. 5, 2018 -- The Open Source Initiative® (OSI) is thrilled to announce the largest single...

November 1, 2018 Post
December 2018 License-Review List Summary

I've been asked to provide monthly summaries of the license-review and license-discuss mailing lists. The summaries will also be posted...

January 7, 2019 Post
Open Source and Sustainability, Updated

Sam Folk-Williams recently blogged a response to an earlier blog posting I had written about Open Source and Sustainability. Over...

November 15, 2008 Post
The License Review process

The OSI License Review Process ensures that licenses and software labeled as “Open Source” conform to existing community norms and...

July 24, 2006 Page
OSI Board Meeting Minutes, Thursday, September 13th, 2018

QuorumQuorum reached and meeting called to order at 16:35 UTC.AttendeesBoard MembersCarolItaloSimonPatrickJoshFaidonChrisVickyMollyAllison (arrived at 16:40 UTC)GuestsExpected, but Not PresentSent RegretsRichardOfficer ReportsMotion...

December 3, 2018 Meeting Minutes
March 2019 License-Review Summary

In March, the License-Review mailing list saw the retraction of the SSPL from review, and discussed a set of GPLv3...

April 1, 2019 Post
Open Source and the future of European AI sovereignty: Insights from Vivatech 2025

French President Emmanuel Macron alongside NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Mistral AI’s Arthur Mensch celebrated a landmark partnership at Vivatech...

June 18, 2025 Post
About The Standards Question In The OpenUK Survey

There is a question about “standards” in the OpenUK survey this time around. Why is it there? The UK is...

May 26, 2022 Post
Africa’s Lessons for OSCON

Sometime last year, after the 10th Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon; I blogged about OSCON lessons for Africa. I...

August 20, 2009 Post
Truth In Labelling – Learning From “Organic”

When I wrote about Organic Software recently, I was largely eulogising the community dimension of open source software. But there's...

October 2, 2009 Post
The importance of Open Source AI and the challenges of liberating data

(This post is taken from a speech given remotely at LLW 2023 by OSI Executive director Stefano Maffulli) The conference...

May 4, 2023 Post
Sovereign by Design: A Blueprint for Federated, Consent-Based AI Systems

Part of the Deep Dive: Data Governance Webinar Series Open source AI is often praised for transparency and scale—but too often overlooks...

October 7, 2025 Page