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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software and open-source software. The rights guaranteed by FOSS originate from the "Four Essential Freedoms" of The Free Software Definition and the criteria...
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The Open Definition (formerly Open Knowledge Definition) is published by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) to define openness for any type of data,...
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requests. The Open Source Initiative's (OSI) definition is recognized by several governments internationally as the standard or de facto definition. OSI uses...
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Social Contract. No open source definition required. Perens modified the Debian Free Software Guidelines into the Open Source Definition by removing Debian...
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software, examine the source code, modify it, and distribute the modifications. These criteria are outlined in the Open Source Definition. After 1980, the...
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Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the...
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the Open Source Definition and vice versa. A small fraction of the software that meets either definition is listed here. Some of the open-source applications...
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hardware-focused "open source" activities were started around 1997 by Bruce Perens, creator of the Open Source Definition, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative...
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Fork (software development) (redirect from Fork (Open Source))
copyright law without explicit permission, but free and open-source software, by definition, may be forked without permission. The word fork has been...
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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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Free content (redirect from Open-source content)
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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in an open manner. The concept is related to open source and the Open Definition, whose first versions bore the title "Open Knowledge Definition", is derived...
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Guidelines. A definition based on the DFSG was later adopted by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) under the name The Open Source Definition. Despite philosophical...
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definition of an open-source film is based on the OSI's open-source software definition and the definition of free cultural licenses. This definition...
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Open-source Judaism is a name given to initiatives within the Jewish community employing open content and open-source licensing strategies for collaboratively...
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Bruce Perens, co-author of The Open Source Definition, argued that the SSPL violated its requirement for an open source license to not place restrictions...
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free-content licences. FOSS stands for "Free and Open Source Software". There is no one universally agreed-upon definition of FOSS software and various groups maintain...
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established "open source" as an alternative expression to "free software", and in 1997 Bruce Perens published The Open Source Definition. In late 1998...
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Free software (redirect from Free source)
considered and approved. All open-source licenses must meet the Open Source Definition in order to be officially recognized as open source software. Free software...
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Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU, 2006 EU report in favor of adopting open source software Free File Format Definition Definition of Free Cultural Works...
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Shared Source Licenses to OSI". O'Reilly Radar. "Microsoft Limited Public License (Ms-LPL)". Microsoft. "The Open Source Definition". Open Source Initiative...
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use of the term open-source to describe Llama has been disputed by the Open Source Initiative (which maintains The Open Source Definition) and others. Code...
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both source-available software and proprietary software (e.g. id Software's Doom). In contrast, the definitions of free software and open-source software...
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Open source intelligence (OSINT) is the collection and analysis of data gathered from open sources (overt sources and publicly available information)...
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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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development due to their inherently open nature. There is no single definition, and interpretations vary with usage. Examples of open standards include the GSM...
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Definition and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative. It is promoted at the web site PostOpen.org Post open source, also called "post open-source software...
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This is in violation of criteria 6 and 9 of the Open Source Definition as used by the Open Source Initiative. The SSPL is based on the GNU Affero General...
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the openness of AI systems as well as a new definition by the Open Source Initiative about what constitutes open source AI. The history of open-source artificial...
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