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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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Chen Debra

May 15 '25

Don’t Miss It! Zoom Shares Innovative Use of DolphinScheduler – Live Meetup on May 20

#apachedolphinscheduler #zoom #meetup #opensource

2 min read

mouso

May 15 '25

Java CSV data selection the easy way.

#tutorial #java #opensource #datascience

1 min read

Jun 18 '25

Benefits of open source

#opensource #webdev #javascript #beginners

1 min read

May 15 '25

Unveiling the Unicode License: A Holistic Exploration of Open Source and Fair Code Licensing

#unicodelicense #opensource #duallicensing

7 min read

Zhang Wei

May 15 '25

Unveiling Standard ML of New Jersey License: A Comprehensive Look at Fair Code Sustainability in Open Source

#standardmlofnewjerseylicense #faircode #opensource

8 min read

Philippe Sthely

May 14 '25

Unleash Collaborative AI Power: Introducing the KeystoneAI-Framework (v2.0.0)!

#ai #llm #aicollaboration #opensource

4 min read

Bralekor

May 28 '25

Introducing DICI : A Fast and Efficient Lossless Image Compression Format

#compression #imagecompression #imageprocessing #opensource

2 min read

May 14 '25

Unveiling MIT No Attribution License: Deep Dive into Open Source Simplicity and Challenges

#mitnoattributionlicense #opensource #duallicensing

7 min read

Team Omnistrate

Jun 18 '25

From Open Source to SaaS: Turning AI Innovation into Scalable Products

#aws #saas #ai #opensource

1 min read

Sharon

Jun 11 '25

5 Reasons SafeLine WAF Is the Go-To Open‑Source Web Firewall

#safeline #waf #opensource #webdev

2 min read

Zhang Wei

May 14 '25

Unveiling JSON License: A Comprehensive Guide to Open Source Fairness and Innovation

#jsonlicense #opensource #developercompensation

8 min read

May 14 '25

Unveiling the Common Public License 1.0: A Deep Dive into Open Source Fair Code Licensing

#commonpubliclicense10 #opensource #faircodelicensing

7 min read

Ibrahim Abu Alroos

May 14 '25

Let’s Build the Future of Global Education – Together!

#webdev #opensource #community #django

1 min read

Karibash

Jun 17 '25

A Tree-Shakable Result Library

#typescript #webdev #opensource #functional

3 min read

ISNDEV

Jun 11 '25

Caching, Queuing, and Pub/Sub: Supercharging Your C++ App with Redis and `qbm-redis`

#cpp #redis #opensource #distributedsystems

4 min read

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