The history of free and open-source software begins at the advent of computer software in the early half of the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, computer...
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Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software – modified...
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of events related to popular free/open-source software. For a narrative explaining the overall development, see the related history of free and open-source...
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such as free software, shareware, and public domain software. Open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet. The open-source software movement...
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The Open Source Definition (OSD) is a document published by the Open Source Initiative. Derived from Bruce Perens' Debian Free Software Guidelines, the...
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This is a list of notable open-source video games. Open-source video games are assembled from and are themselves open-source software, including public...
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non-free replacement or will add software that is not free software. Free Software Movement of India International Centre for Free and Open Source Software...
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Alternative terms for free software, such as open source, FOSS, and FLOSS, have been a recurring issue among free and open-source software users from the late...
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Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...
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rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative...
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The open-source software movement is a social movement that supports the use of open-source licenses for some or all software, as part of the broader...
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community creation and sharing of communal code, later to be known as free and open source software, as a threat to its business, and both executives spoke...
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documentation, web pages, and other works, accessible either publicly or privately. They are often used by open-source software projects and other multi-developer...
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The history of the Berkeley Software Distribution began in the 1970s when University of California, Berkeley received a copy of Unix. Professors and students...
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open-source software (FOSS) and open-source hardware are created by this open-source culture movement and apply a like concept to a variety of components...
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Free and Open Source Software Conference India (FossCon India) is planned to be an annual, three days conference for the discussion and promotion of the...
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Open-source software development (OSSD) is the process by which open-source software, or similar software whose source code is publicly available, is developed...
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released. Linux portal Free and open-source software portal History of free and open-source software Linux kernel version history Leemhuis, Thorsten. "Die...
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formed the foundation of the open source GIS software community. The 1980s also saw the beginnings of most commercial GIS software, including Esri ARC/INFO...
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their freedoms. Proprietary software is a subset of non-free software, a term defined in contrast to free and open-source software; non-commercial licenses...
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rights. Software using such a license is free software (or free and open-source software) as conferred by the copyright holder. Free-software licenses...
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financial aid, technical aid, governance, etc. of free and open-source software (FOSS) as a whole, or of one or more specific FOSS projects. For projects...
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equivalent corpora of programs, the Free Software Foundation recommends using the term "free software" rather than "open-source software" (an alternative...
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The following is a list of notable software packages and applications licensed under an open-source license or in the public domain for use in the health...
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open source software List of free and open-source Android applications List of free and open-source software packages List of free software web applications...
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FOSDEM (redirect from Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting)
Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is an annual software engineering conference. It is non-commercial and volunteer-organized...
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A free and open-source graphics device driver is a software stack which controls computer-graphics hardware and supports graphics-rendering application...
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The International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (also known as 'IFOSS L. Rev.', 'IFOSSLR', or 'IFOSS L. R.') was an English language law review...
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comparison of the features of notable shopping cart software packages available. Some such shopping cart software is extensible through third-party software components...
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found in Apple's open source Darwin) and released under a BSD-style license. FreeBSD 7.0 was released on 27 February 2008. The final FreeBSD 7 release was...
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