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Thank you, …we’re not there yet.

“Not there yet...” that phrase actually highlights where we are with several important initiatives here at the OSI and even...

December 26, 2016 Post
Update on San Francisco’s Open Source Voting System!

As many may know, the OSI has been involved in supporting the adoption of an open source elections system in...

February 2, 2017 Post
Open Forum for AI, Open Source Initiative respond to White House on AI R&D strategy

The Open Forum for AI (OFAI), of which Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a member, submitted feedback to the White...

June 3, 2025 Post
October 2019 License-Discuss Summary

We would like to introduce (and thank!) Amol Meshram, who has joined us here at the OSI to provide monthly...

December 2, 2019 Post
Time To Rebut The IIPA’s FUD Against Open Source

A recent blog posting at The Guardian about the US "Special 301" rules has generated deep concern around the global...

February 28, 2010 Post
Meta’s LLaMa license is still not Open Source

A year ago we called on Meta to stop calling Llama 2  “Open Source.” Since then, Meta has released new...

February 18, 2025 Post
The Open Source Initiative Announces the Release of the Industry’s First Open Source AI Definition

RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 28, 2024 -- ALL THINGS OPEN 2024 -- After a year-long, global, community design process, the Open Source Definition...

October 28, 2024 Post
Design and the Bottom Line

The Impact of Design on Stock Market Performance dates back to 2004, but the kernel of truth it reveals could...

July 24, 2007 Post
OSI extends support to OW2 as Associate Organization.

OW2, the global community for open source infrastructure software and application platforms, and the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the global...

July 3, 2017 Post
Permissive and Copyleft Are Not Antonyms

Using the term “permissive” as an antonym to “copyleft” – or “restrictive” as its synonym – are unhelpful framing. Describe...

July 7, 2017 Post
Why OSI License Approval Matters

Individual judgment about the presence of software freedom in a license is not the same as community consensus expressed through...

July 14, 2017 Post
TCS Wide Area Network Emulator becomes open source

In 2005 I visited India for the first time. It was a whirlwind tour and one of the most eye-opening...

August 21, 2007 Post