Favorite In OSI’s feedback to the European Commission’s proposed Standard Essential Patent (SEP) Regulation (SEP-R), OSI recommended that the legislation add a waiting period for patent claims registered under the regulation as standard-essential after the standard has been ratified. The recommendation was based on the social purpose behind tolerating the

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Shared by voicesofopensource January 31, 2024

Favorite OSI announced a public forum to widen the conversations that will lead to version 1.0 of the Open Source AI Definition. The forums are part of our commitment to inclusiveness and transparency, matching the public town hall meetings that started two weeks ago. The public forum‘s goal is to

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Shared by voicesofopensource January 26, 2024

Favorite In the next few weeks, the OSI board of directors will renew three of its seats with an open election process among its full individual members and affiliates. There will be two elections in March, running in parallel: The affiliate organizations will elect one director Individual members will elect two directors The results of elections

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Shared by voicesofopensource January 16, 2024

Favorite The Open Source Initiative published today a new report that looks at the history of the business practice to delay releasing their code under freedom-respecting licenses. Since the early days of the Open Source movement, companies have experimented with finding a balance between granting their users the basic freedoms

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Shared by voicesofopensource January 10, 2024

Favorite At the beginning of 2023, I started as a community manager for ClearlyDefined, with the goals of creating an open governance model for the project and helping the OSI to establish a neutral infrastructure to foster collaboration among multiple stakeholders. Thanks to the amazing work from our community members,

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Shared by voicesofopensource January 8, 2024

Favorite The OSI joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) at the beginning of 2023 to support its mission to accelerate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of and investment in digital public goods. Digital public goods

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Shared by voicesofopensource December 21, 2023

Favorite The year of 2023 was a busy one for the Open Source Initiative (OSI), as we celebrated the 25th Anniversary of Open Source while looking towards present and future challenges and opportunities. Our work has revolved around 3 grand areas: licensing and legal, policy and standards, and advocacy and

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Shared by voicesofopensource December 13, 2023

Favorite The 2023 report of the licenses in use by the biggest package managers highlights the need to educate developers on the importance of licensing information. While many developers know that Open Source software forms the backbone of modern development, the data shows that much of their software is shared

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Shared by voicesofopensource December 7, 2023

Favorite The current draft v. 0.0.3 of the Open Source AI Definition borrows wordings from the GNU Manifesto’s golden rule stating:  If I like a program, I must be able to share it with others who like it. The GNU Manifesto The GNU Manifesto refers to “program” (not “AI system”),

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Shared by voicesofopensource November 28, 2023

Favorite The meeting of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) members in Addis Ababa was very informative. The OSI led a workshop to define Open Source AI and joined the subsequent presentation by the AI Community of Practice (CoP) of the DPGA. There were about 40 people in the room,

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Shared by voicesofopensource November 22, 2023