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    Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified...
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  • free and open-source software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits the Free...
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    add new functions.[failed verification] The first example of free and open-source software is believed to be the A-2 system, developed at the UNIVAC division...
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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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    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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  • Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa Archived 2021-08-27 at the Wayback Machine Free Software Foundation...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    The open source model is a decentralized software development model that encourages open collaboration. A main principle of open source software development...
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  • development of open-source software employ a variety of business models to solve the challenge of making profits from software that is under an open-source license...
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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 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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    licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate open-source software (OSS) and free software development...
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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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  • 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 a...
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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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  • 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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    Open Source Initiative coined the term open source in opposition to the free software movement. While free software is the same thing as open-source software...
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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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  • where source code is available under a free software/open-source software license. Note however that much of this software is dual-licensed for non-free distribution...
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  • Alternative terms for free software, such as open source, FOSS, and FLOSS, have been a controversial issue among free and open-source software users from the...
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  • opposition to the open source software paradigm, turned to embrace the approach in the 2010s. From the 1970s through 2000s under CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer...
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  • varying user preferences and stagnated or discontinued development of the original software. Free and open-source software is that which, by definition...
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  • software is open source, and nearly all open source software is free. — Free Software Foundation Free and open-source software portal Free software movement...
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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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  • 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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