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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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    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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    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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  • list of free and open-source software (FOSS) packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits...
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  • open-source licenses. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it considers free. FSF's free software and OSI's open-source licenses...
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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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  • Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa Free Software Foundation Software Freedom Law Center Free Software...
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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 a...
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  • The Open Source Definition (OSD) is a policy document published by the Open Source Initiative. Derived from the Debian Free Software Guidelines written...
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    is free software (or free and open-source software) as conferred by the copyright holder. Free-software licenses are applied to software in source code...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    of Free Cultural Works" (as also in the Open Source Definition and Free Software Definition). For such free/open content both movements recommend the same...
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  • and open-source software are much narrower. Free software and/or open-source software is also always source-available software, but not all source-available...
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  • legal aid, financial aid, technical aid, governance, etc. of free and open-source software (FOSS) as a whole, or of one or more specific FOSS projects...
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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 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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    that run on the Android platform which meet guidelines for free software and open-source software. The API column is used to describe which versions of Android...
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  • prohibited by copyright law without explicit permission, but free and open-source software, by definition, may be forked without permission. The word fork...
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  • the phrase open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of other terms, such as free software, shareware, and public domain...
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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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    was made open source and became OpenOffice.org. Sun continues developing the commercial version which periodically integrates the open source code with...
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  • (EFDC). Elmer - an open-source multiphysical simulation software for Windows/Mac/Linux. FlightGear - a free, open-source atmospheric and orbital flight simulator...
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  • notable software packages which were published as free and open-source software, or into the public domain, but were made proprietary software, or otherwise...
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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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    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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  • 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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    version of a software product as free and open-source software, while offering "commercial" versions or add-ons as proprietary software. The term was...
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