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Despite a 25-year history, Open Source is still misunderstood or misrepresented. I still read about developers, a cohort you\u2019d expect to know better, arguing whether software licensed with the GNU GPL is Open Source because \u201cone cannot resell it\u201d (hint: the GNU GPL doesn\u2019t prevent users from selling software.)<\/p>\n
This sort of confusion reaches the highest levels of the policy-making process.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A lot of issues found in the text of the European Cyber Resilience Act, for example, stem from one misstep: the Open Source communities haven\u2019t been consulted. Why? And how do we fix this?<\/p>\n
As OSI\u2019s director of policy and standards Simon Phipps\u00a0wrote, the lack of early engagement with a wider set of Open Source experts explains why the drafters of the CRA have misunderstood the meaning of \u201cCommercial\u201d when referred to Open Source.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At OSI we\u2019ve stepped up our advocacy and outreach program to educate the wider community. We just wrapped up the first License Clinic for lawyers and employees of US federal agencies and we\u2019ve started planning for the next one, in Brussels. Stay tuned for details: the License Clinic is a staple of our programs.<\/p>\n
We want to make sure that there are no missteps when large, consequential legislation is drafted and OSI and its Affiliates are consulted.<\/p>\n
Become a\u00a0Supporting or Professional member\u00a0today. Your contribution supports OSI\u2019s work to educate lawyers and civil servants around the world about the values of Open Source.<\/p>\n
I hold weekly\u00a0office hours on Fridays\u00a0with OSI members: book time if you want to chat about OSI\u2019s activities, if you want to volunteer or have suggestions.<\/p>\n
Stefano Maffulli<\/p>\n
Executive Director, OSI\u00a0<\/p>\n
In this month\u2019s Open Source Initiative\u2019s newsletter<\/p>\n
Results of 2023 elections of OSI board of directors<\/p>\n
Containers can be safer with Open Source<\/p>\n
April 4th License Clinic in Washington DC<\/p>\n
Diving in to Open Source supply chain; connecting and collaborating with<\/p>\n
communities<\/p>\n
Open Source Approved License\u00ae registry project underway with help of intern, Giulia Dellanoce<\/p>\n
Why the European Commission must consult the Open Source communities2023 State of Open Source Report: key findings and analysis<\/p>\n
Notable Open Source news<\/p>\n
Results of 2023 elections of OSI board of directors<\/p>\n
Congratulations to the returning directors\u00a0Aeva Black, and\u00a0Catharina Maracke, and the newly elected director\u00a0Anne-Marie Scott.<\/p>\n
Anne-Marie Scott has been confirmed and joins as a director elected by the Affiliate organizations. She\u2019ll take the seat that was occupied by\u00a0Hong-Phuc Dang\u00a0who\u00a0resigned in June 2022.\u00a0Aeva Black and Catharina Maracke\u00a0collected the votes of the Individual members.<\/p>\n
Containers can be safer with Open Source<\/p>\n
Container adoption is soaring, thanks to Open Source. The majority of projects and tools for container management in the cloud-native ecosystem are Open Source; one example is\u00a0SlimToolkit, a tool supported by Slim.AI. SlimToolkit addresses one of the most critical issues in the cloud-native ecosystem today: container security.\u00a0Read more\u00a0from OSI Maintainer Sponsor Slim.AI.<\/p>\n
April 4 OSI License Clinic Washington DC a Success!<\/p>\n
With a ten year pause since the last License Clinic, OSI is now on track to deliver License Clinics for public service employees in support of their role in adoption and use of Open Source within their agencies. In the US, recent executive orders and the new\u00a0National Cybersecurity Plan\ufeff\u00a0\u2013 released just ahead of the clinic \u2013 has raised the bar for engagement with free and Open Source software communities by agencies.<\/p>\n
Three current OSI board directors and two board directors emeritus along with seasoned government practitioners led a full-day interactive workshop covering Licensing 201 AI\/ML, SBOM, and Alternative Licenses.\u00a0 Attendees represented a wide range of DC area interests; civilian and military, the White House, Non-governmental agencies and Nonprofits, the legal community as well as contractors supporting agencies OSS projects\u00a0 Plans are underway now for the 2024 clinic.\u00a0 Watch this space for the date, plus announcement of publication of Clinic proceedings early this summer.<\/p>\n
Diving in to Open Source supply chain; connecting and collaborating with communities<\/p>\n
It has been about one month since ClearlyDefined Community Manager Nick Vidal joined the Open Source Initiative, and\u00a0he\u2019s been busy learning\u00a0about\u00a0ClearlyDefined\u00a0and how it fits into the Open Source supply chain compliance and security ecosystem. This is an exciting area that has a major impact not just in the tech sector, but on society as a whole, as Open Source has become pervasive.<\/p>\n
Open Source Approved License\u00ae registry project underway with help of intern, Giulia Dellanoce<\/p>\n
One of the main drivers for the recent OSI website upgrade was to unify OSI-approved licenses with all related metadata to a consistent, reliable and easy-to-access format. From there we can incorporate the outcome of the\u00a0recommendations\u00a0coming out of the\u00a0License Review Working Group. What\u2019s really exciting is we have hired an intern, Giulia Dellanoce, to\u00a0get this important project underway!<\/p>\n
Also join us in thanking Slim.AI, who\u2019s donation to OSI is supporting this internship.<\/p>\n
Why the European Commission must consult the Open Source communities<\/p>\n
A crucial problem with the\u00a0Impact Assessment\u00a0of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is that no Open Source communities or community fiduciaries were consulted as stakeholders. The lack of consultation with the Open Source communities would explain the possible origin of\u00a0a serious defect in terminology. Standards & EU Policy Director, Simon Phipps,\u00a0explains more in his latest blog.<\/p>\n
2023 State of Open Source Report: key findings and analysis<\/p>\n
Executive Director Stefano Maffulli joined Javier Perez on a webinar reviewing the results of the\u00a02023 State of Open Source survey, a collaborative effort between OpenLogic by Perforce and the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Open Source users from all eight global regions, working in 20+ industries in organizations of all sizes were anonymously surveyed. The resulting report is about 60 pages of great content and data on all things Open Source. The\u00a0raw data of the survey\u00a0has been released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License.\u00a0Here are some key findings\u00a0they recently discussed.<\/p>\n
OSI in the news<\/p>\n
Open-source tools have a large role in the production of AI. devm.io spoke with Open Source Initiative\u2019s (OSI) Stefano Maffulli about Open Source and AI systems.<\/p>\n
And a huge shoutout to all of our renewing sponsors!<\/p>\n
Bloomberg for their continued support of ClearlyDefined.<\/p>\n
Are you interested in sponsoring or partnering with the OSI?\u00a0Contact us\u00a0to find out more about how your organization can promote open source development, communities and software<\/p>\n
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