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Every March, Open Education Week invites us to reflect on something that will feel familiar to everyone in this community: the idea that knowledge is most powerful when it is freely accessible, adaptable, and shared. It is a principle that open education and Open Source have always held in common, and this mont...
For more than 25 years, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) website has been a central reference point for Open Source licenses. Over that time, our site has evolved through multiple redesigns, content management systems, and infrastructure migrations. As a result, license pages accumulated a variety of URL formats, including some ending in html, php, and txt.
In 2025 ...
Open technologies such as Open Source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware play an increasingly important role in digital infrastructure, public sector innovation, and democratic governance around the world. Yet the research that informs policy and investment in these technologies is often fragmented and uneven.
To address this challenge, O...
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has signed the Open Letter to the Higher Education Community, joining a growing coalition of educators, technologists, nonprofit leaders, and institutions calling for re...
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is proud to highlight Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026, a global program that continues to strengthen Open Source communities by pairing new contributors with experienced mentors.
For more than two decades, GSoC has helped thousands of developers make meaningful, sustained contributions to free and Open Source softw...