Open Source Initiative controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2025
Criticism of board-election administration
Members and other open-source community participants criticized errors in communicating the number of seats, the timing of candidate requirements, the exclusion of three candidates, and OSI's refusal to invalidate and repeat the election or publish complete tallies.
2021
Board-election voting vulnerability
OSI found that at least one voter had exploited a security vulnerability to submit multiple votes. The organization discarded the results and reran the election.
2020
Bruce Perens resignation and license-proliferation dispute
Co-founder Bruce Perens resigned while objecting to the anticipated approval of the Cryptographic Autonomy License. He argued that the license did not adequately respect software freedom and later raised broader concerns about proliferation of overlapping licenses.