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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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May 2 '25

Fair Source Software: Bridging Open Source and Proprietary Licensing

#fairsourcesoftware #opensource #proprietarylicensing

8 min read

BekahHW

May 29 '25

Beyond Stars and Forks: Why Open Source Needs Better Collaboration Metrics

#opensource #metrics #community

6 min read

May 2 '25

Git

#git #devops #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

Ayush kumar for NodeShift

Jun 5 '25

Step-by-Step Guide to Run Llama 4 Locally with Tool Calling Enabled

#llama4 #ollama #opensource #ai

7 min read

May 2 '25

Exploring Elon Musk’s Fascination with NFTs and Influence on Open Source Software: A Technological Odyssey

#nfts #opensource #elonmusk

8 min read

May 6 '25

Open Source Developer Financial Support and Community Networks in Blockchain and NFT Innovation: A Deep Dive

#opensource #blockchain #nft

10 min read

May 2 '25

Exploring Dual Licensing in Open Source Software: A Comprehensive Overview

#duallicensing #opensource #softwaresustainability

8 min read

Jun 4 '25

We launched on Product Hunt this week - was it worth it?

#showdev #webdev #opensource #devjournal

4 min read

Astrodevil

Jun 3 '25

I Tested DeepSeek-R1-0528 & Built a Job-Finding Agent with ADK, Nebius AI, MistralOCR & Linkup⛵

#ai #python #opensource #programming

14 min read

May 1 '25

onuze - Open source reddit alternative

#webdev #programming #open #opensource

1 min read

May 1 '25

Processing Foundation is hiring a Processing Project Lead!

#java #opensource #creativecode #processing

2 min read

Timi Agama

May 6 '25

Nigeria's Overlooked Compliance Risk: Mobile Number Validation and the Unpredictable Cost of Failure

#opensource #compliance #inputvalidation #typescript

8 min read

May 1 '25

Donations for Open Source Projects: Fueling Innovation Through Community Contributions

#opensource #donations #community

9 min read

Sylar

May 1 '25

TRAA MCP Server: A Powerful Screen Capture MCP Server

#mcp #opensource #ai #devto

3 min read

Jun 4 '25

The Ultimate SEO Guide: Built for Developers, by a Developer

#webdev #seo #tutorial #opensource

1 min read

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