• 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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  • software. Free Software Movement of India International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) Free Software and Open Source Foundation for...
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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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    Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study,...
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  • of free and open-source software (FOSS) packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits the...
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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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  • shareware, and public domain software. Open source gained hold with the rise of the Internet. The open-source software movement arose to clarify copyright...
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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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  • Open-source software advocacy is the practice of attempting to increase the awareness and improve the perception of open-source software. In some cases...
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  • Software companies focusing on the development of open-source software (OSS) employ a variety of business models to solve the challenge of making profits...
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    strategic alignment to mission. The Open Source Definition is a derivative document based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), released in 1997...
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  • Free/open-source software – the source availability model used by free and open-source software (FOSS) – and closed source are two approaches to the distribution...
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    movement. Both free and open-source software (FOSS) and open-source hardware are created by this open-source culture movement and apply a like concept to...
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    copyright. The free-culture movement, with its ethos of free exchange of ideas, is aligned with the free and open-source-software movement, as well as other movements...
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    movement are identical to that of the open-source movement, but are implemented for the development of physical products rather than software. Open design...
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  • The Open Source Definition (OSD) is a policy document published by the Open Source Initiative.[when?] Derived from the Debian Free Software Guidelines...
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    Open-source robotics is a branch of robotics where robots are developed with open-source hardware and free and open-source software, publicly sharing...
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    corpora of programs, the Free Software Foundation recommends using the term "free software" rather than "open-source software" (an alternative, yet similar...
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  • gender disparity and lower racial and ethnic diversity in the open-source-software movement than in the field of computing overall, though a higher proportion...
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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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  • between the Free Software movement and Open Source movement", Free Software Foundation, Inc "What is Free Software", Free Software Foundation, Inc opensource...
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    intellectual property, are all matters common to open-source, the free culture movement, and rabbinic Judaism. Open-source Judaism concerns itself with whether works...
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    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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    Digital rights Open source Free education Free software movement Freedom of information Information wants to be free Open publishing Open-source hardware Project...
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  • popular free/open-source software. For a narrative explaining the overall development, see the related history of free and open-source software. The Achievements...
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  • contributors and noncontributors alike." It is prominently observed in open source software, and has been initially described in Richard Stallman's GNU Manifesto...
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  • is a list of notable open-source video games. Open-source video games are assembled from and are themselves open-source software, including public domain...
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  • open-source software. Ma3bar – a United Nations-affiliated organization, promotes open source software within the Arab world. Free Software Movement of...
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  • based on free software and open-source software development. Many of the values and tenets of the free and open source software movement stem from the...
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  • and open-source software (FOSS) licenses, such as the Apache License, MIT License, and GNU General Public License, outline the terms under which open-source...
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