Topic: osi
Beware of fake open source
Open source is at the heart of nearly all software today: A staggering 96 percent of applications contained open-source code and 90 percent of companies leverage open source in some way. It’s no surprise that the adoption rate of open source is sky-high. It provides companies with incredible perks like greater speed of innovation, agility, and flexibility—all at … continue reading
SD Times news digest: PHP moves to GitHub, OSI’s statement on Stallman, and Ian Kelling joins FSF board of directors
The PHP programming language team has announced its repositories on GitHub are now canonical and changes should be pushed directly to GitHub rather than to git.php.net. This change follows two malicious commits that were pushed to the php-src repo. “While investigation is still underway, we have decided that maintaining our own git infrastructure is an … continue reading
OSI co-founder leaves initiative over new license
Bruce Perens, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), is removing himself from the organization over controversy with a new license. The Cryptographic Autonomy License was submitted to the OSI last year by open-source lawyer Van Lindberg on behalf of Holo, a decentralized app platform. In a blog post, Holo’s co-founder and distributed app architect … continue reading
The Commons Clause causes open-source disruption
A group of software companies and developers are going after cloud infrastructure providers for what they claim is an abuse of the open-source software ecosystem. The group says cloud providers are using open-source software for their own commercial benefit without returning anything back to the open-source community, helping sustain those projects, or giving open source … continue reading
Open source at 20: The ubiquity of shared code
“Why is open source important? That’s like asking why is gravity important,” stated Brian Behlendorf, a leading figure in the open-source software movement, and executive director for the blockchain consortium Hyperledger. While this year marks the 20th anniversary of open source, it is hard to imagine a time before open-source software. Today, it’s difficult to … continue reading
Open Source Initiative celebrates anniversary, history of open source
As a result of companies releasing their code to the public, the importance of having a solid community—one that understands how developers, contributors, businesses and governments interact and communicate—increases. One group has recognized this importance since the beginning, and yesterday it celebrated its 18th anniversary, along with a history of support for open source. The … continue reading
Navigating through an open-source world
Open-source software is becoming the backbone of the software development industry, helping to spur innovation, reduce time to market and lower costs. According to Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, almost every device or piece of software we use today contains some open-source code. “There are hundreds and thousands of products and services … continue reading
