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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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Matej Bačo for Appwrite

May 19

Announcing Appwrite Sites: The open source Vercel alternative

#opensource #webdev

4 min read

May 19

How I Tried to Save My Google Play Developer Account — and Ended Up Making a App for Crypto

#opensource #reactnative #mobile #android

8 min read

Vladyslav

May 19

Cartouche — a social network where you're the only human

#ai #opensource #python #react

2 min read

May 19

Copyleft Licenses: A Comprehensive Guide for Open Source and Commercial Success

#copyleft #opensource #licensing

9 min read

NocoBase

May 19

6 Best Open-Source Ticketing Systems for 2025

#opensource #github #tooling #systems

5 min read

May 19

The Best Privacy-Focused Browser Alternatives in 2025 – A Comprehensive Overview

#privacy #browsers #opensource

9 min read

Sharon

May 19

How SafeLine WAF Stacks Up Against Cloudflare and ModSecurity

#websecurity #waf #benchmarking #opensource

2 min read

Sharon

May 19

Why SafeLine Might Be the Best Open Source WAF You Haven’t Tried Yet

#websecurity #waf #opensource #devops

2 min read

Leonardo Gonçalves

May 19

Terminal based Graphical Interface in NodeJs

#javascript #linux #terminal #opensource

1 min read

Laetitia Perraut

May 19

Unveiling the X Consortium License: Bridging Open Source Fairness and Legal Innovation

#xconsortiumlicense #opensource #developercompensation

7 min read

Sharon

May 19

16,400+ GitHub Stars: This Free WAF Is on Fire

#waf #websecurity #opensource #reverseproxy

2 min read

May 18

Unveiling PostgreSQL License Variant: A Comprehensive Exploration of Open Source Fairness

#postgresqllicensevariant #opensource #developerfairness

8 min read

Soulaimen Choura

May 18

SkillTrack AI – A Simple AI-Powered Developer Skill Tracker

#opensource #ai #springboot #developer

1 min read

The Ecstatic Engineer

May 18

Deploying Novu on a Virtual Machine

#novu #notifications #docker #opensource

4 min read

May 19

throwError utility in Inferno.js source code.

#opensource #react #monorepo #infernojs

2 min read

May 18

Unveiling OpenLDAP Public License 2.8: A Comprehensive Deep Dive into Fair Code Licensing

#openldap #faircodelicensing #opensource

8 min read

May 19

What’s New in vite-plugin-create v1.0.1 — Or How I Took Another Step Toward the Perfect Generator

#webdev #opensource #vite #react

2 min read

Zyntraxis

May 18

The Legend of Zyntraxis

#opensource #programming #systems #linux

1 min read

NocoBase

May 19

How the No.1 AI Voice Recorder Brand Built Its Internal Systems

#opensource #tooling #ai #systems

5 min read

May 18

Unveiling Open Software License 2.0: A Comprehensive Exploration of Fair Code Licensing

#opensoftwarelicense #faircodelicensing #opensource

7 min read

May 18

Redis 8 just dropped: back to open source and ready to reclaim its crown

#redis #webdev #programming #opensource

32 min read

baxtiyor qurbonnazarov

May 18

DevConnect loyihamga yordam kerak!

#webdev #programming #collabrator #opensource

1 min read

May 18

Python Monorepos & the Polylith Developer Experience [video]

#python #polylith #fosdem #opensource

1 min read

Zhang Wei

May 18

Unveiling GNU General Public License 2.0: Exploring Open Source Fairness and Developer Sustainability

#gpl20 #opensource #developersustainability

9 min read

Md.ismail

May 18

# Uptime Kuma: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Uptime Monitoring Tool

#uptimekuma #uptimerobot #opensource #pingdom

3 min read

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