Open Source Initiative Blog

1. Give Your Input on the State of Open Source Survey

   The OSI has partnered again with OpenLogic by Perforce to produce a comprehensive report on global, industry-wide Open Source software adoption trends. The 2025 State of Open Source Report will be based on responses to a survey of those working with Open Source software in their organizations, from developers to CTOs and everyone in between.

2. Open Data and Open Source AI: Charting a course to get more of both

   The Open Source Initiative organized a workshop to discuss data sharing and governance for AI training. This is a teaser of a whitepaper coming in a few weeks.

3. The Open Source Initiative and the Eclipse Foundation to Collaborate on Shaping Open Source AI (OSAI) Public Policy

   The Eclipse Foundation and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on promoting the interest of the open source community in the implementation of regulatory initiatives on Open Source Artificial Intelligence (OSAI).

4. ClearlyDefined v2.0 adds support for LicenseRefs

   We are excited to announce the release of ClearlyDefined v2.0 which adds over 2,000 new well-known licenses it can identify. You can see the complete list of new non-SPDX licenses in ScanCode LicenseDB.

5. Members Newsletter – November 2024

   After more than two years of collaboration, information gathering, global workshopping, testing, and an in-depth co-design process, we have an Open Source AI Definition.  The purpose of version 1.0 is to...