Open Source Initiative

On Monday, September 21, with the high-level week of the 81st UN General Assembly (UNGA81) underway in New York, OSI Executive Director Duane O’Brien spoke on a UN panel about Open Source AI and joined a Creative Commons symposium on openness and digital sovereignty. The OSI also attended the inaugural 50-in-5 Awards for digital public infrastructure. Different people filled ...

Dear OSI community,

I’d be remiss if I didn’t open by wishing Linux a happy 35th birthday. I can’t pretend to have accomplished nearly as much by the age of 35 as Linux has, but neither was I nurtured by such a vast community of contributors and supporters. We can’t lose sight of that. Open Source is what it is because of the p...

By this point, you’ve seen the news about open-weight AI models and the debate over their security, efficiency, and impact on both local and national economies. Scores of businesses have

The Open Source Initiative joins the Open Forum for AI (OFAI) in supporting calls for the U.S. to develop more open models because they promote competition in AI through local control and lower costs. The OFAI is a university-led, collaborative initiative that aims to bend the arc toward hu...

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is coming to All Things Open with a track designed to connect developers with the big policy conversations shaping our ecosystem. This year’s State of the Source looks at Open Source from several perspectives. Hear about OSI’s priorities for 2027, get a practical introduction to Open Source licensing and compliance, and discuss Open Source sus...