Facts About Open Source
By WEG & CLJ from Chapin & MCSI from Lab
Open source gurantees anybody rights to
freely use, modify, and redistribute, the code. The intent was to
be able to sell the hackers' ways of doing software to industry and
the mainstream by avoid the negative connotations
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The license won't restrict any party from selling or giving away software as a component of an aggregate (total) software distribution containing programs from several different sources.
The software must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost preferably, downloading through the Internet without charge.
The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form only if the license allows the distribution of "patch files" with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. This license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code. The license may require derived works to carry a different name or version number from the original software.
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.
The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution. If the program is extracted from that distribution and used or distributed within the terms of the program's license, all parties to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the original software distribution.
The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source software.
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The idea of open source is sort of like the idea of "free software" but a little less strict than free software movement.
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Open source is when the source code is given to the general public for a fee
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Question 2: What won't the license restrict?
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Question 3: Who tried to change the name from open source to "free software"? Why?
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Answer to question 2: The license won't restrict any party from selling or giving away software as a component of an aggregate (total) software distribution containing programs from different sources.
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Answer to question 3: In 1998, a group of individuals tried to change the term open source to free software because its less ambiguous and more comfortable for the corporate world.
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Our Quiz About Open Source by WEG, CLJ, and MCSI
Question 1: What does open source guarantee?
Answer to question 1: Open source guarantees anybody rights to freely use, modify and redistribute the code.