Updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement now merged
As part of GitHub’s commitment to developers, we open source the policies that govern our platform and welcome feedback at any time in our site-policy repository. When we make material changes to these...
View ArticleOpen source in the 5G stack
Developers know the value of openness, and increasingly policymakers are taking note. Open source and open standards approaches offer promising solutions to mounting policy problems related to digital...
View ArticleGitHub at the UN Internet Governance Forum
Last week, GitHub joined the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to spread awareness for developers’ initiatives and public policy interests with the global technology policy community. IGF is an annual,...
View ArticleOpen source creates value, but how do you measure it?
Open source software has transformed our lives. Using someone else’s running code allows developers to focus efforts on unsolved problems without reinventing the wheel—accelerating innovation at scale....
View ArticleDevelopers are now included in the WIPO Global Innovation Index
Innovation happens on GitHub. Every day, developers contribute to open source infrastructure, build apps, power scientific research, and tinker on projects. Unfortunately, these contributions to...
View ArticleHow to get AI regulation right for open source
The EU AI Act is set to become the first comprehensive AI regulation and to offer a model for policymakers around the world. But with this promise comes some risk. The Act may regulate upstream open...
View ArticleHelping policymakers weigh the benefits of open source AI
Policymakers are increasingly focusing on software components of AI systems, and how developers are making AI model weights available for downstream use. GitHub enables developer collaboration on...
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Advancing responsible practices for open source AI
Today, the Partnership on AI (PAI) published a report, Risk Mitigation Strategies for the Open Foundation Model Value Chain. The report provides guidance for actors building, hosting, adapting, and...
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