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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Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code...
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(OSI) definition is recognized by several governments internationally as the standard or de facto definition. OSI uses The Open Source Definition to determine...
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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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considered both free software and open-source software. The precise definition of the terms "free software" and "open-source software" applies them to any...
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Perens, creator of the Open Source Definition, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, and a ham radio operator. He launched the Open Hardware Certification...
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distribute the modifications. These criteria are outlined in the Open Source Definition. After 1980, the United States began to treat software as a literary work...
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The open-source-software movement is a movement that supports the use of open-source licenses for some or all software, as part of the broader notion of...
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Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source. For...
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The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the steward of the Open Source Definition, the set of rules that define open source software. It is a California public-benefit...
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