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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Muhammed Shafin P

Jul 16 '25

Infoscava: Acknowledging Antivirus Flags

#infoscava #opensource #falsepositive #cybersecurity

1 min read

Jul 16 '25

Remotion vs Twick vs CE.SDK: Best React SDKs for AI‑Powered Video Editors

#opensource #videoeditor #twick #ai

3 min read

EvoAgentX

Jun 12 '25

🌟 EvoAgentX's First Community Call: A Great Milestone Achieved! 🌟

#programming #ai #python #opensource

2 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Jul 15 '25

Open Source Collaboration Report: What 250+ Projects Reveal

#opensource #github #programming #softwaredevelopment

4 min read

Apache SeaTunnel

Jun 12 '25

How to Seamlessly Integrate SeaTunnel MySQL-CDC with Databend: Formats Explained & Best Practices

#programming #apacheseatunnel #opensource #mysql

10 min read

Chitransh Soral

Jun 11 '25

DeadLock - 66% Complete

#python #datascience #machinelearning #opensource

1 min read

Riyana Patel for PullFlow

Aug 1 '25

Project of the Week: freeCodeCamp

#discuss #opensource #codenewbie #freecodecamp

3 min read

Jul 15 '25

Day Two of Learning System Design: Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling

#programming #systemdesign #opensource #backenddevelopment

4 min read

Jul 4 '25

Tired of trial and error to fix your LLM app? I built a tool to automate it.

#ai #aiops #llm #opensource

3 min read

Jul 14 '25

Set up HTTP Tunneling in minutes with Tunnelmole

#http #https #tunneling #opensource

6 min read

Lauren Lee for Devs of Midnight

Jul 15 '25

Say Hello to example-counter and example-bboard

#programming #opensource #blockchain #privacy

3 min read

Cahyanudien Aziz Saputra

Jul 15 '25

HadisKu: Revolusi Digital Pembelajaran Hadis untuk Umat Islam Modern

#webdev #opensource #productivity

4 min read

Cahyanudien Aziz Saputra

Jul 15 '25

Building Hadis Ku: A Comprehensive Digital Hadith Collection 14 Imams for Modern Muslims

#islamicapp #opensource #webdev #productivity

4 min read

Jul 15 '25

Should you start your own open source project or should you contribute to an existing one?

#opensource #programming #career

2 min read

Muhammed Shafin P

Jul 15 '25

What I Learned About Open Source Licensing theHard Way

#opensource #pythondev #legalcompliance #binarydistribution

2 min read

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