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AUTHORS.md
AUTHORS.md is a file format standard used in open-source and collaborative software projects to list the original creators, primary authors, and significant contributors of a project. Often required by open-source licenses such as GPL and Apache 2.0 to provide proper attribution, the AUTHORS.md file documents who wrote what portions of a codebase, their email addresses, and the scope of their contributions. Related standards include CONTRIBUTORS.md, All Contributors specification, and REUSE/SPDX contributor attribution frameworks.
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All Contributors API
The All Contributors specification provides a standardized way to recognize contributions to open-source projects beyond just code. It includes a bot API for automating contributor management, a configuration schema (.all-contributorsrc),…
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Providers whose own tags share at least two of this topic's tags, most shared first — the top 30 of 36.
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| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md | ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md is a standardized file convention used in open source repositories to credit third-party software, libraries, inspirations, and other works that a project builds upon or is indebted to. It is a common practice for docume… | 0 | |
| Swagger | Swagger is an open-source framework by SmartBear for designing, building, documenting, and consuming RESTful APIs using the OpenAPI Specification. Originally created by Wordnik in 2011, Swagger became the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) in 201… | thin | 5 |
| CONTRIBUTING.md | CONTRIBUTING.md is a community health convention used by open source projects on GitHub and other platforms to document how external contributors can participate. The file communicates contribution guidelines, pull request processes, issue… | 2 | |
| FUNDING.yml | GitHub configuration file specifying funding platforms and links for project sponsorship, displayed as a Sponsor button on the repository page. Supports platforms including GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, Open Collective, Ko-fi, Liberapay, Tidel… | 0 | |
| Eclipse Foundation | The Eclipse Foundation is a non-profit (Belgian AISBL) that provides a global community of individuals and organizations with a mature, scalable and business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. It is… | strong | 19 |
| Netcracker | Netcracker Technology is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based BSS/OSS and digital business software vendor and a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation. It sells cloud BSS, digital commerce and monetization, convergent charging, service and… | strong | 4 |
| Academy Software Foundation | The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) is a Linux Foundation project that supports open source software development for the motion picture, visual effects, and animation industries. ASWF hosts a portfolio of production-proven open source p… | strong | 14 |
| ETSI | ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, is a not-for-profit standards development organisation headquartered in Sophia Antipolis, France, and one of only three bodies officially recognised by the European Union as a Euro… | strong | 24 |
| CustomerOS | CustomerOS (formerly Openline) is a London-based revenue-intelligence platform for B2B go-to-market teams. It identifies anonymous website visitors, scores them against an ideal customer profile, infers buying stage from page engagement, a… | developing | 10 |
| EHRbase | EHRbase is an open source openEHR Clinical Data Repository (CDR) - a standards-based backend for storing, versioning and querying structured clinical data. It implements the official openEHR REST API (ITS-REST 1.0.2) against openEHR Refere… | developing | 1 |
| Agentic AI Foundation | The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is a Linux Foundation project, announced 9 December 2025, that gives the core open standards and projects of the AI agent ecosystem a neutral home. It hosts five projects: Anthropic's Model Context Protocol… | developing | 1 |
| Fossa | FOSSA is a software supply chain security and open source management platform that scans codebases, containers, and binaries to detect open source dependencies, then enforces open source license compliance, vulnerability management, and SB… | developing | 1 |
| University of Vienna | The University of Vienna (Universitat Wien), founded 1365, is Austria's largest university and a member of LERU. Its programmable footprint is unusual for a university in one specific way: Vienna does not merely deploy a repository platfor… | developing | 1 |
| OpenAPI Generator | OpenAPI Generator is a community-governed, Apache-2.0 open-source project that generates client libraries (SDKs), server stubs, API documentation and configuration automatically from an OpenAPI Specification (v2 and v3). Forked from Swagge… | developing | 1 |
| API Blueprint | API Blueprint is a high-level API description language using Markdown-based syntax for designing, documenting, and prototyping web APIs. Created by Apiary and released under the MIT License, API Blueprint uses .apib files with a concise Ma… | developing | 1 |
| ELISA | ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) is a Linux Foundation collaborative project that builds the shared tools, processes and evidence needed to use Linux in safety-critical systems. Its working groups and special interest groups s… | thin | 1 |
| Tidelift | Tidelift provides open-source software supply-chain management for enterprises. Its platform combines package intelligence (maintenance, quality, end-of-life, and vulnerability signals) with catalogs of approved dependencies, policy and li… | thin | 1 |
| APIGen | ApiGen is an open source PHP API documentation generator that automatically produces smart and simple documentation from PHP source code. It supports PHP 7.1+ including all PHP 8.3 features like enums, union types, readonly classes, and in… | thin | 1 |
| Subversion | Apache Subversion (SVN) is a centralized version control system that tracks changes to files and directories over time. It supports atomic commits, directory versioning, cheap branching and tagging, merge tracking, and binary file handling… | thin | 1 |
| Open Container Initiative | The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is an open governance structure for creating open industry standards around container formats and runtimes, hosted under the Linux Foundation. | emerging | 1 |
| CAMARA Project | CAMARA is the Telco Global API Alliance — an open-source project hosted by the Linux Foundation that defines, builds, and tests a unified set of network APIs across the world's mobile operators. Working alongside the GSMA Open Gateway comm… | emerging | 24 |
| BookStack | BookStack is a free, open-source, self-hosted wiki and documentation platform built with PHP and Laravel. It provides a REST API for managing the full content hierarchy including books, chapters, pages, and shelves, as well as attachments,… | emerging | 1 |
| Docusaurus | Docusaurus is an open-source static site generator built by Meta for creating documentation websites. Powered by React, it supports MDX, versioning, internationalization, search, and a plugin ecosystem, making it a popular choice for open-… | emerging | 1 |
| Nextra | Nextra is an open-source, Next.js-based documentation framework for building fast, modern, and beautifully styled documentation sites. It extends Next.js with MDX support, file-system routing, built-in search powered by Pagefind, syntax hi… | emerging | 3 |
| API Style Guides | A landscape index of public API style guides published by leading technology companies and standards bodies. API style guides codify conventions for resource modeling, URI design, HTTP method use, status codes, error formats, pagination, v… | emerging | 11 |
| Apache ORC | Apache ORC is a self-describing, type-aware columnar file format designed for Hadoop workloads. It provides high compression ratios and fast read performance for large-scale data processing with support for complex data types. | emerging | 3 |
| VitePress | VitePress is a Vite and Vue powered static site generator widely used for developer documentation. It converts Markdown content into fast, beautiful documentation sites with support for Vue components embedded directly in Markdown pages. V… | emerging | 2 |
| DapperDox | DapperDox is an open-source API documentation generator that creates beautiful, customizable reference documentation from OpenAPI specifications. It supports theming, overlays, and cross-referencing across multiple API specifications, maki… | emerging | 1 |
| CNCF | The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is part of the Linux Foundation and hosts critical components of the global cloud-native technology infrastructure - including Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, etcd, OpenTelemetry, CloudEvents, gR… | emerging | 2 |
| CHANGELOG.md (Keep a Changelog) | CHANGELOG.md is a community convention for a human-readable, Markdown- formatted file at the root of a project that records notable changes between versions. The leading specification is "Keep a Changelog" by Olivier Lacan, which defines a… | emerging | 0 |
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