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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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Nov 15 '24

Developer Icons: an awesome open-source library for free tech logos

#opensource #react #astro #webdev

3 min read

배성준

Oct 17 '24

Introducing My First Open Source Project: Swaggy-Swagger

#springboot #opensource #react #css

2 min read

Nov 13 '24

⚡ 🚀 Top 10 Trending GitHub Repositories, November, Week 2 2024 🔥

#github #opensource #beginners #webdev

3 min read

deverm

Nov 15 '24

Yami - An Open-Source Music Player With Simple Ui

#showdev #python #music #opensource

1 min read

Terentis Antoniou for Code Call

Oct 12 '24

Code Call v0.1.0 (Beta) Release Notes

#opensource #javascript #react #html

2 min read

Carrie

Nov 4 '24

What is an Upstream Server

#cybersecurity #opensource #webdev #beginners

3 min read

Nov 15 '24

Introducing Zakker: Bringing Islamic Remembrance to Your IDE

#plugin #kotlin #remembrance #opensource

2 min read

Jan 22

DAE搭配MosDNS使用配置

#linux #networking #opensource #tutorial

17 min read

Nov 15 '24

An Open-Source Platform for Multi-Agent AI Orchestration

#ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Nov 15 '24

What Is a Data Streaming Platform?

#data #streaming #iot #opensource

3 min read

Nov 15 '24

ExtendableError usage in changesets errors package

#javascript #opensource #typescript #class

3 min read

TheoForger

Oct 12 '24

Today We Rewrite History!

#beginners #rust #git #opensource

3 min read

Amir Mullagaliev

Nov 15 '24

CI GitHub Action Workflow

#opensource #rust #java

2 min read

Oct 11 '24

✨ From Contributor to Core Project Maintainer: My Open Source Journey ✨

#discuss #hacktoberfest #javascript #opensource

2 min read

Nov 14 '24

Why I created a new UUID package for Node.js

#javascript #typescript #opensource #node

2 min read

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