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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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Zhang Wei

Mar 19 '25

Unveiling GNU FDL 1.2: A Deep Dive into Free Documentation Licensing

#gnufdl12 #freedocumentationlicense #opensource

3 min read

Takashi Masuda for ROUTE06, Inc.

Apr 21 '25

What We Did to Gain 3,000 GitHub Stars for the Liam Repository

#github #opensource #marketing #liamerd

7 min read

Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 21 '25

Mastering the mv Command in Linux

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

3 min read

Mar 19 '25

Exploring the Simplicity and Impact of the Expat License

#expatlicense #opensource #softwarelicensing

3 min read

Mar 19 '25

Unveiling Cube License: An In-Depth Exploration of Fair Code and Open Source Innovation

#cubelicense #faircode #opensource

3 min read

Anmol Baranwal for CopilotKit

Apr 1 '25

Automate 90% of Your Work with AI Agents (Real Examples & Code Inside) 🚀 🤖

#programming #ai #opensource #productivity

15 min read

Tim Green

Apr 20 '25

Rebalancing the Open Source Economy

#opensource #sustainability #ethicallicensing #humanintheloop

4 min read

Christopher Poulsen

Mar 19 '25

Call for Contributors

#kotlin #blockchain #opensource #go

1 min read

Abhay

Apr 20 '25

Build Your Own GitHub CI Automation for Code Reviews using Elixir and Gemini

#githubactions #elixir #ai #opensource

7 min read

Pratik242

Apr 21 '25

🔐 I Built a JavaScript Web Vulnerability Scanner Devs Can Actually Use (CLI, Web UI, and AI-Powered Fixes)

#javascript #security #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Mar 18 '25

Unveiling Cooperative Patent License 1.0: Innovation & Fairness in the Open Source World

#opensource #cooperativepatentlicense #innovation

3 min read

Zhang Wei

Mar 18 '25

Unveiling the Checkstyle License: A Deep Dive into Fair Code and Open Source Innovation

#checkstylelicense #opensource #faircode

3 min read

Mar 19 '25

Unveiling the Power of GNU LGPL 2.0 in Today’s Open Source Landscape

#gnulgpl20 #opensource #softwarelicensing

3 min read

Apr 21 '25

My Tech Stack in 2025

#development #programming #opensource #learning

4 min read

Sean van Zuidam for Fylgja

Apr 21 '25

Fylgja 2.0 is Live

#news #css #fylgja #opensource

4 min read

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