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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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Steven

May 13

Building a Location-Based App with Appwrite

#programming #appwrite #react #opensource

6 min read

Linghua Jin for cocoindex

May 13

Story of CocoIndex, at 1k stars 🎉

#showdev #programming #opensource #datascience

4 min read

Sharon

May 13

Next-Gen WAF for Devs: Why SafeLine Is Gaining 16K+ GitHub Stars

#cybersecurity #waf #opensource #devops

3 min read

May 13

Coliving App Open-Source Launch

#coliving #opensource #digitalnomad #travel

3 min read

Saurabh Mahawar

May 13

📊 Visualise Presto Queries with Apache Zeppelin: A Hands-On Guide

#opensource #datascience #dataengineering #presto

4 min read

May 13

Unveiling IBM Public License 1.0: A Holistic Perspective on Open Source Licensing, Fair Code, and Future Trends

#ibmpubliclicense10 #opensource #faircode

9 min read

May 13

Unveiling GNU All-Permissive License: A Comprehensive Deep-Dive

#gnuallpermissivelicense #opensource #licensingmodels

8 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA FASHINA

May 13

Debug Smarter: How grep Helps Engineers Fix Issues Fast and Stand Out (Part 3)

#cloudwhistler #linux #opensource #regex

4 min read

May 12

Getting Started with Linux: System Information and User Management

#cloudwhistler #devops #opensource #linux

2 min read

May 12

Unveiling the BSD 3-Clause License: A Deep Dive into Open Source Permissiveness, Fairness, and Future Innovation

#bsd3clauselicense #opensource #blockchain

8 min read

xuri

May 12

Excelize 2.9.1 Released - Powerful open-source library for spreadsheet (Excel) document

#go #excel #excelize #opensource

4 min read

May 12

Kubernetes: Handling Crashes, Scaling, and Rollbacks

#ai #productivity #devops #opensource

4 min read

OLUWADAMILOLA FASHINA

May 12

Debug Smarter: How grep Helps Engineers Fix Issues Fast and Stand Out (Part 2)

#cloudwhistler #opensource #linux #regex

4 min read

May 12

Five Things to Try First in RHEL 9 (Without Accidentally Blowing Anything Up)

#linux #opensource #beginners #cloudwhistler

4 min read

Reza Fa

May 12

What Angular Libraries Are You Missing? Let’s Build Them – Together (Open Source)

#angular #community #opensource

1 min read

Code Area

May 12

4 Best Frontend Frameworks in 2025: Which One Should You Choose?

#beginners #devops #opensource #programming

2 min read

May 12

MIT License Explained: A Deep Dive into Open Source Permissiveness and Fair Code Practices

#mitlicense #opensource #faircode

9 min read

May 12

Plexe - ML models from a prompt

#ai #opensource #machinelearning #data

3 min read

Leonardo Gonçalves