Home From The Board Contact Donate Login Search this website .. Open Source Initiative Guaranteeing the 'our' in source _. ABOUT LICENSES MEMBERSHIP COMMUNITY RESOURCES NEWS & EVENTS To promote and protect open source software and communities_. For over 20 years the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has worked to raise awareness and adoption of open source software, and build bridges between open source communities of practice_ As a non profit; the OSI champions software freedom in society through education, collaboration, infrastructure, stewarding the Open Source Definition (OSD} and preventing abuse of the ideals and ethos inherent to the open source movement: Open source software is made by many people and distributed under an OSD-compliant license which grants all the rights to use, study; change, and share the software in modified and unmodified form: Software freedom is essential to enabling community development of open source software News Join us for OSI's first State of the Source Summit! Submitted by jenn cummings on Mon, 2020-08-24 15.52 global and