Open Source Initiative
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Non-profit organization promoting open-source software
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Within Vinony's link graph, Open Source Initiative is referenced by 327 other articles, and connects out to Apache License, GNU Lesser General Public License and GNU General Public License.
It sits within the topics Advocacy groups in the United States, American organizations established in 1998 and Charities based in California.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Formation
- February 8, 1998 (28 years ago) ( 1998-02-08 )
- Type
- Standards organization
- Location
- West Hollywood, California , U.S.
- Region served
- Worldwide
- Interim executive director
- Deborah Bryant (September 2025 – present)
- Board of directors
- Anne-Marie Scott, Carlo Piana, Catharina Maracke, Chris Aniszczyk, Gaël Blondelle, Josh Berkus, Ruth Suehle, McCoy Smith
- Revenue
- $811,527 (2023)
- Website
- opensource .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- nonprofit organization
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Eric S. Raymond
- Headquarters
- El Camino Real
- Revenue
- 343964
- Legal form
- nonprofit organization
- Official website
- opensource.org
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- Commons category
- Open Source Initiative
- interested in
- open source
- different from
- Open Systems Interconnection
- inception
- 1998-02-00
- short name
- OSI
- social media followers
- 60085
- donations
- 171270
- total assets
- 586633
- Mastodon instance URL
- social.opensource.org
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Encyclopedic overview
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is an American nonprofit organization that maintains The Open Source Definition (OSD), the predominant standard for open-source software. The organization was founded in February 1998 by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, part of a group inspired by the Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product. Later, in August 1998, the organization added a board of directors.
For most of its existence, the OSI's activities have been focused on the definition and certifying software licenses as compliant with it. OSI originally had a closed organizational model, but began to switch towards a membership organization in the 2010s to raise more money and expand its activities.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Open Source Initiative” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.