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June 1, 2026

G7 Digital and Technology Ministerial Declaration

G7 UK

Our Vision on AI openness opportunities and shared language aims to provide greater clarity in the use of terminology describing AI openness. We expect this Vision to help extend the existing benefits of AI openness in science, innovation, and economic growth, as highlighted in the OECD G7 Discussion paper on The Benefits of AI Openness, while ensuring trust in technologies and access to a greater diversity of models. We welcome the valuable contribution of the Open Source Initiative, as well as other members of the community, in supporting the development of this document.

May 29, 2026

Le G7 s’engage pour un numérique responsable : quatre priorités adoptées sous présidence française

G7 France

L’open source : une « Vision commune sur l’ouverture de l’IA » a été adoptée, clarifiant les principes techniques et économiques des modèles ouverts. Ce cadre, négocié avec l’Open Source Initiative et l’OCDE, vise à éviter les dérives et à favoriser l’innovation collaborative.

May 8, 2026

Why age assurance laws matter for developers

GitHub

Whether through contacting elected representatives in states considering these proposals like California, Colorado, Illinois, and New York, contributing to Brazil’s Digital ECA public consultation, or engaging with organizations like the Open Source Initiative, or through foundations that steward projects that may be impacted like the FreeBSD Foundation and Debian, there are concrete ways for developers to share their perspectives—helping ensure these policies both support children’s digital safety and reflect technical realities, align with regulatory intent, and avoid unintended harm to the open source ecosystem.

April 28, 2026

Asserting American Leadership in Open Source AI

a16z

The definition of “open source software” is maintained by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), which focuses on 10 specific conditions that a copyright license must meet. OSI has undertaken an effort to extend this definition to AI with the OSAID, an effort that remains ongoing.

March 26, 2026

How to engage with policy makers when you’re a developer (not a lobbyist)

We Love Open Source

tate AI regulations aren’t differentiating between developers and deployers, impacting open source contributors who could be held responsible for downstream uses they don’t control. In this episode, Katie Steen-James, Senior US Policy Manager at the Open Source Initiative, joins the We Love Open Source podcast to share how developers can engage with policy makers, why the Federal Register matters, and what the developer versus deployer distinction means for protecting open source.

March 25, 2026

Open source isn’t a tip jar – it’s time to charge for access

The Register

We have the Linux Foundation to manage commercial open source projects, the Apache Foundation to oversee its various open source programs, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to coordinate open source licenses, and many more for various specific projects. It’s time we had an organization with the mission of ensuring that the top programmers and maintainers of valuable open source projects get a cut of the tech billionaire pie.

March 6, 2026

What the India AI Summit Leader’s Declaration Means for the Future of the Digital Commons

Tech Policy Press

The Open Source Initiative’s definition for open source AI attempts to take this one step further, requiring developers to release not only model weights, but also the training scripts used to create training datasets, as well as detailed information on the composition of training datasets, and there is still room for that definition to expand it further to also share the datasets.

March 3, 2026

React Moves to Open Governance

The New Stack

“Developers involved in projects that move to a neutral foundation … benefit from the separation of business … and technology in its governance,” Bryant says. “Business leadership and investment in non-technical concerns – legal, funding, marketing, community events, and so forth – are addressed, while developers are able to focus on collectively driving the technology roadmap and releasing code.”

December 24, 2025

Where code meets community

China Daily

From AI to embodied intelligence, COSCon 2025 revealed how open source thrives through shared ideas, volunteer effort and cross-border cooperation.

Beyond technical frontiers, Jiang also reflected COSCon’s growing international reach. Overseas guests included representatives from organizations such as the Open Source Initiative, OpenChain, and Open-UK, making this year’s gathering the largest to date in terms of international participation.

December 16, 2025

Open Source: Inside 2025’s 4 Biggest Trends

The New Stack

While the open source AI definition remains controversial, and very few AI projects fully qualify as open source by the strict requirements of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) AI definition, AI remains built on a foundation of open source software. The debate over open weights, data and training code will continue, but even the most proprietary large language models (LLMs) couldn’t exist without open source programs.

December 15, 2025

As Meta fades in open-source AI, Nvidia senses its chance to lead

The New Stack

As lead author Shayne Longpr and team pointed out, “The Open Source Initiative defines open source AI models as those which have open model weights, but also ‘sufficiently detailed information about their [training] data’,” adding, “Without training data disclosure, a released model is considered ‘open weight’ rather than ‘open source’.”