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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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Sana Muhammad Sadiq

Apr 15 '25

How to Setup RHEL 9 on Windows Using Virtual Box

#cloudwhistler #opensource #devops #linux

4 min read

Zhang Wei

Mar 12 '25

Unveiling the Perl License: A Deep Dive into Open Source Fairness

#perllicense #opensource #softwarelicensing

3 min read

Mar 12 '25

Unveiling the wxWidgets License: A Deep Dive into Freedom, Fairness, and Flexibility

#wxwidgetslicense #opensource #duallicensing

3 min read

Apr 15 '25

Revolutionize Your Conversations with Node Natter: An Open-Source Real-Time Chat App 🚀

#opensource #node #javascript #react

3 min read

Mar 12 '25

Exploring the Intel Open Source License: A Deep Dive

#intelopensourcelicense #opensource #softwarelicensing

3 min read

Yoshi

Apr 15 '25

Full-stack WASM framework: Build Offline-Ready Apps with Local-First Architecture🦸‍♂️

#webdev #webassembly #rust #opensource

5 min read

Dagger X

Mar 26 '25

Security Redefined: Introducing DaggerX V3.0.0 for Unbreakable PHP Protection

#webdev #encryption #php #opensource

3 min read

Mar 12 '25

Unveiling the Vim License: An In-Depth Look at a Pioneering Legal Framework

#vimlicense #opensource #legalframework

4 min read

Mar 12 '25

Unveiling the X11 License: A Deep Dive into Permissive Freedom and Fair Code

#x11license #opensource #permissivelicensing

3 min read

Laetitia Perraut

Mar 12 '25

Unveiling the PostgreSQL License: A Deep Dive into Open Source Freedom

#postgresqllicense #opensource #licensing

3 min read

Muhammad Zulqernain Zahid

Apr 27 '25

Getting Comfortable with the Command Line (30-Day RHCSA + Ansible Journey)

#cloudwhistler #linux #devops #opensource

2 min read

Mar 12 '25

Unveiling PHP License 3.0: Balancing Fairness and Innovation in Software Licensing

#phplicense30 #opensource #fairlicensing

3 min read

Ben Greenberg for Couchbase

Apr 15 '25

Build Your First Open Source AI Agent

#ai #opensource #python #tutorial

7 min read

Mar 12 '25

InfluxDB 3 Core vs. 1.8: Query Performance and Compatibility Tested

#database #opensource

5 min read

Chitransh Soral

Jun 10 '25

DeadLock - Extracting wheels

#python #opensource #datascience #machinelearning

1 min read

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