Open Source Software

Esri continues to make significant technical and financial contributions to open source software events, libraries, tools, and apps. Esri employees have developed over 500 open source projects onĀ GitHub, most of them licensed under Apache 2.0; regularly contribute to third-party projects like GDAL; and attend FOSS4G conferences.

We realise that good ideas come from many places, and we are excited to see how ArcGIS users can customise and share their projects with open source software.
Jack Dangermond
Esri President