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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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Danie1

Jul 7 '23

Unofficial Python Meta Threads API is Available

#news #opensource #python #socialmedia

1 min read

Miguel Eduardo Senna Moroni

Jul 7 '23

Revolucionando a legislação: Construindo leis descentralizadas através do GitHub

#git #github #opensource

2 min read

Gianluca

Jul 7 '23

Kubernetes add-on compliance with Projectsveltos and Lua

#showdev #kubernetes #opensource #compliance

4 min read

Thomas Segura for GitGuardian

Jul 7 '23

GitHub's Push Protection: Enhancing Open-Source Security with Limitations to Consider

#news #github #security #opensource

7 min read

Alexey Yuzhakov

Jul 2 '23

Build an Open Source Project: Behind the Scenes

#opensource #programming #linux

9 min read

Oleksii Borisenko

Jul 6 '23

How GoPro, Mercedes, Santander, and others retain open-source licenses and copyrights.

#opensource #licenses

2 min read

CrabNebula for CrabNebulaDev

Jul 6 '23

The Final Mile

#tauri #opensource #security

2 min read

Bap

Jun 23 '23

Contribute to Open Source in the next 10 min - Step by Step [Beginner Edition] 🦾

#beginners #opensource #github #git

5 min read

Hung Vu

Jul 5 '23

TrueNAS virtualization using Harvester and Kubevirt

#tutorial #opensource #linux #devjournal

10 min read

Jul 6 '23

Introducing AACP (Agent-to-Agent Communication Protocol)

#opensource #autonomousagents #aacp #superagi

3 min read

Jul 5 '23

Container Security - Strengthening the Heart of your Operations

#devseccon #security #opensource #softwareengineering

4 min read

Sardar Mudassar Ali Khan

Jul 5 '23

Generating a dropdownlist control in MVC using HTML helpers

#webdev #programming #opensource #aspdotnet

1 min read

Sm0ke

Jul 5 '23

Django File Manager - #FREE Sample

#django #opensource #appseed

1 min read

Inhere

Jul 5 '23

gookit/goutil - released v0.6.10, an extension library of common Go features

#programming #opensource #go #util

4 min read

CrabNebula for CrabNebulaDev

Jul 5 '23

CrabNebula: A New Star Forge Emerges

#tauri #opensource #security

4 min read

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