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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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Rastislav ₡ORE

Aug 26 '24

Licensing the Open Source Software

#opensource #corelicense

3 min read

pouchlabs

Aug 26 '24

Fasteejs new fast express alternative

#showdev #webdev #opensource #node

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arungeorgesaji for VortexLinux

Aug 26 '24

Introducing Vortex Linux: A Secure and Flexible Distribution in Development—Seeking Contributors!

#linux #opensource #development #contributorswanted

2 min read

Thibaut F. Batale

Aug 25 '24

Streamlining Security Scans with secureCodeBox: My Google Summer of Code Journey

#opensource #kubernetes #devops

6 min read

Nandhan

Jul 22 '24

PYMODINS

#pymodins #python #programming #opensource

3 min read

silverus

Jul 23 '24

First Contributions: learn how to contribute to open source projects

#opensource #beginners #tutorial

1 min read

Jul 23 '24

CacheerPHP: The Minimalist Caching Solution for PHP

#webdev #php #opensource #softwaredevelopment

1 min read

Aug 25 '24

Integrating Telegram Stars ⭐️ Payment in a Python Bot

#python #api #tutorial #opensource

4 min read

Aug 24 '24

Setting Up a VPS with Nginx, Docker, and GitHub Actions

#tutorial #opensource #docker #nginx

5 min read

Peli de Halleux

Aug 24 '24

Keeping the Your README Fresh and Engaging using AI

#ai #javascript #opensource #genaiscript

2 min read

Yuri for Supabase

Aug 23 '24

Introducing Log Drains

#webdev #programming #productivity #opensource

4 min read

Aug 24 '24

Building RealTimeEdify: A Real-Time Collaborative Document Editing App with MERN Stack & Socket.IO

#react #opensource #javascript #node

3 min read

Aug 23 '24

Creating Unique Slugs on Supabase with PostgreSQL

#opensource #supabase #postgres #sql

3 min read

Nick Taylor for OpenSauced

Aug 19 '24

Supercharge Your GitHub Profile: Showcase Your Open Source Contributions

#opensource #career #githubactions #github

4 min read

Venki for errsole

Aug 23 '24

Creating a Custom Logger for a Node.js Application using Errsole

#javascript #node #opensource #tutorial

3 min read

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