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Legal Track at OSCON (from Mark Radcliffe)

Legal issues are very important for open source projects. We are providing free panels on open source legal issues at...

July 21, 2009 Post
Microsoft and standards–deja vu all over again?

On November 2nd, 2006, Microsoft and Novell announced a business agreement that, without adding any prejudice of my own, was...

February 22, 2008 Post
Jonathan Desrosiers

Hello, my name is Jonathan Desrosiers. I’ve been a credited contributor to the WordPress project since 2013, a Core Committer...

June 26, 2025 Page
Episode 4: transcript

“DGW: Some people just want to download the software and make porn with it. And if they don't know how...

February 26, 2025 Page
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
Open Source, MySQL, and trademarks

Greg Stein (Apache developer and all-around nice guy) made an off-hand comment about open source trademarks in an article(How to...

December 14, 2009 Post
Open Source shaking up document databases, setting new standards

Currently there is no Open Source common interface for document databases, but FerretDB is driving forward with a goal to...

June 29, 2023 Post
Building Public Data for LLMs

Part of the Deep Dive: Data Governance Webinar Series As the capabilities and influence of large language models (LLMs) continue to expand,...

October 7, 2025 Page
GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1

Copyright (C) 1991, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Everyone is permitted...

October 31, 2006 License
LaTeX Project Public License, Version 1.3c

Copyright 1999 2002-2008 LaTeX3 Project Everyone is allowed to distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but modification of it...

August 31, 2010 License
Obituary: Raj Mathur

Former OSI Board member Danese Cooper writes: One of the pillars of the Indian FOSS Community passed away this week....

December 15, 2012 Post
2023 in review: many reasons to celebrate

The year of 2023 was a busy one for the Open Source Initiative (OSI), as we celebrated the 25th Anniversary...

December 13, 2023 Post