Favorite A week loaded with important questions. Overarching concerns with Draft v.0.0.8 and suggested modifications A post signed by the AWS Open Source raised important questions, illustrating a disagreement on the concept of “Data information.” A detailed post signed by the AWS Open Source team raises concerns about the draft

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Shared by voicesofopensource May 20, 2024

Favorite With all the buzz around SBOMs and Open Source supply chain compliance and security, a new revolution is igniting at ClearlyDefined. This amazing project has been flying under the radar since its inception six years ago, but now this free service and open source project from the Open Source

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Shared by voicesofopensource May 16, 2024

Favorite The OSI community is traveling to five continents seeking diverse input on how to guarantee the freedoms to use, study, share and modify Open Source AI systems. SAN FRANCISCO – May 14, 2024 – Open Source Initiative (OSI), globally recognized by individuals, companies and public institutions as the authority

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Shared by voicesofopensource May 15, 2024

Favorite Early thoughts on “Apple sample code license”? Apple has released a license to distribute its new model, OpenELM. The license looks BSD/MIT-like with the exclusion of patents. According to you, does it seem OSD compliant? Initial thoughts: @pchestek added that the license appears to be similar to open source

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Shared by voicesofopensource May 14, 2024

Favorite There is tension between copyright laws and large datasets suitable to train large language models. Common Corpus is a dataset that only uses text from copyright-expired sources to bypass the legal issues. It’s a useful achievement, paving the path to research without immediate risk of lawsuits. I also fear

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Shared by voicesofopensource May 7, 2024

Favorite Definition validation: Seeking volunteers The process has entered a new phase: We are now seeking volunteers to validate the Open Source AI Definition, using it to review existing AI systems. The objective of the phase is to confirm that the Definition works as intended and understand where it fails.

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Shared by voicesofopensource May 6, 2024

Favorite The European Commission recently published a public draft of the standards request associated with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Anyone who wants to comment on it has until May 16, after which comments will be considered and a final request to the European Standards Organizations (ESOs) will be issued.

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Shared by voicesofopensource May 2, 2024

Favorite New draft of the Open Source AI Definition v.0.0.8 is live! The draft is ready for feedback.  The changelog:  incorporated feedback from legal review in Gothenburg and 0.0.7 transformed Data transparency to Data information following feedback from the separated the Out of scope section to a FAQ document 18

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Shared by voicesofopensource April 29, 2024

Favorite The definition of “open source” in the most recent version (article 2(48)) of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) goes beyond the Open Source Definition (OSD) managed by OSI. It says: “Free and open-source software is understood as software the source code of which is openly shared and the license

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Shared by voicesofopensource April 26, 2024

Favorite With version 0.0.7 of the Open Source AI Definition just published, we are getting very close to a release candidate version in June, as planned. We’ve covered a lot of ground since FOSDEM 2024, where we presented draft 0.0.4. This month we presented at Open Source Summit North America

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Shared by voicesofopensource April 23, 2024