It is the latest salvo in a lively debate: what does open source really mean in the age of AI? In traditional software, the term is well-defined.

The Open Source Initiative, led by Stefano Maffulli, has been working to find the "open source AI" definition for the past two years.

Open source, and specifically open-source software, refers to code that is designed to be publicly available, meaning that anyone can see, modify and distribute the code as they see fit.

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Founded in 1998, the nonprofit is the custodian of the Open Source Definition, a widely accepted set of rules that determine whether a piece of software can be considered open source.

See open source and Open Source Definition. An Approved License This logo can be used if software is distributed under one of several licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.

An open source web server, a software foundation, and a permissive license that, unlike the GPL, allows source code to be mixed into non-open source, commercial code.

What does "open source" mean? With open source software being so prevalent in our lives (Android, Wordpress, Mozilla Firefox are almost fixtures), you would think that it would be simple enough to ...

The Open Source Initiative reaffirms the definition of open source — and warns efforts to stand up to Amazon and Alibaba could undermine the industry.

Specifically, without the fixed point of uncompromising free software, open source would soon mainstream itself into meaninglessness. Follow me @glynmoody on Twitter or identi.ca.

This is perfectly legal: Elasticsearch began as open source software, meaning anybody — even Amazon — can do whatever they want with it, up to and including selling it.