Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under an open-source license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the...
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Free software, libre software, libreware sometimes known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to...
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list of free and open-source software packages (FOSS), computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits...
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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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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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"Free and Open-Source Software" (FOSS) or "Free/Libre and Open-Source Software" (FLOSS) as a form of inclusive compromise, which brings free and open-source...
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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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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,...
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they are used to distinguish "freeware" (software gratis) from free software (software libre). Free software advocate and GNU founder Richard Stallman...
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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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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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for free software Debian Social Contract Free-software licence Gratis versus Libre Open source Open-source definition Open-source software Open-source-software...
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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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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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Not all open-source games are free software; some open-source games contain proprietary non-free content. Open-source games that are free software and contain...
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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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higher gender disparity and lower racial and ethnic diversity in the open-source-software movement than in the field of computing overall, though a higher...
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"Free and Open Software" or FLOSS "Free/Libre Open-Source" communities. These movements share fundamental differences in the view on open software. The...
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Free content, libre content, libre information, or free information is any kind of creative work, such as a work of art, a book, a software program, or...
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Libre Office latest versions. In 2000, the Portuguese Vieira do Minho Municipality began switching to free and open-source software. IOSSPL is a free...
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public domain. I didn't know. So that's a complication. The Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) License Slide by David A. Wheeler on October 4, 2021...
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those of the free/libre software movement and the community behind the manifesto typically engages in activism towards a libre society. Libre communities...
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purposes. Commercial software can be proprietary software or free and open-source software. While software creation by programming is a time and labor-intensive...
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Similar projects include OpenDisc, OpenCD, WinLibre and GNUWin II. Free and open-source software portal OpenDisc GNUWin II WinLibre Listen to this article...
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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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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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According to the Free Software Foundation Latin America, Linux-libre is a modified version of the Linux kernel that contains no binary blobs, obfuscated...
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MercadoLibre, Inc. (literally "free market" in Spanish, and known as Mercado Livre in Portuguese) is an Argentine company headquartered in Montevideo,...
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broadly covers free content licenses and open-source licenses, also known as free software licenses. The invention of the term "free license" and the...
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Open Source Ecology, farm equipment and global village construction kit. Free and open-source software (FOSS) or free/libre and open-source software (FLOSS)...
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