GlobalSign Gives Open Source Developers a Security Boost!

If you want to protect your website, the best way to do so, is to use an SSL certificate. Now, these certificates can be expensive, and requires some knowledge to set up.

However this week GlobalSign is offered to give a free wildcard SSL certificate to qualified open source projects. It’s their way of supporting open source and encouraging industry best practices among open source developers.

In order to qualify for a free SSL certificate the open source project must have an OSI approved license, be active in terms of development, the noncommercial, and pass some other simple requirements.

It’s not clear whether this is a limited offer or not, but this is an encouraging sign of corporate support for open source!