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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Yash Kumar Saini

Sep 19

Dev log #21 Hardening WebRTC-Direct and solving SCM leaks

#discuss #opensource #devrel #distributedsystems

5 min read

CLAUDE.md ties the format race

Janz

Sep 19

How common is AGENTS.md, really? I sampled GitHub: 6.2% of active repos, 1.0% of all repos

#ai #agents #github #opensource

6 min read

MZO

Sep 19

MOGP: A SCSS Layout System That Only Does One Thing

#css #scss #opensource #webdev

3 min read

Georg

Sep 19

The story of morphing-scroll, my npm library

#showdev #javascript #opensource #webdev

8 min read

Sep 19

Awwwards-mcp - MCP server that gives agents design references from award-winning sites

#mcp #opensource #ai #agents

1 min read

Sep 19

I Built My Own CQRS Library for .NET — Here's Why

#productivity #api #csharp #opensource

2 min read

Sep 19

I extracted the SVG animation engine from my project and open-sourced it

#opensource #webdev #react

2 min read

George Michalakis

Sep 19

Switch Codex accounts seamlessly with AgentHop

#react #python #productivity #opensource

7 min read

kobaltGIT

Sep 19

Why I Built an Open-Source, E2EE-Synced Termius Alternative (and What Broke Along the Way)

#opensource #devops #flutter #security

4 min read

Sep 19

We scanned 1,939 repositories. 95% of projects publishing an OpenAPI spec have no compatibility gate.

#api #openapi #devops #opensource

7 min read

Babar Khan

Sep 19

My AI wrote API docs. Then a parser fact-checked it.

#ai #webdev #opensource #documentation

2 min read

Sep 19

Cua: Open-Source Computer-Use Infrastructure & Drivers for AI Agents

#ai #opensource #programming

4 min read

Sep 19

Agent Skills and MCP Configs Need a Security Gate

#devops #ai #security #opensource

4 min read

Sep 19

RICO: A Real-Time AV Signal Router for MIDI, OSC, NDI, Spout, and DMX (C++/DirectX11)

#opensource #cpp #creativecoding #xamarin

2 min read

cancerdude

Sep 19

Why I stopped using random online tools (and built my own 100% local alternative)

#productivity #javascript #opensource #lowcode

2 min read

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