Editing Open source

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then publish the changes below to finish undoing the edit.

Latest revision Your text
Line 1: Line 1:
'''Open source''' refers to a software [[licences|licence]] where source code access is regulated by set of published principles.  There are many such licenses.
'''Open source''' refers to a software [[licences|licence]] where source code access is regulated by set of published principles.  There are many such licenses.


[[Free software]] is open source with '''added restrictions''' on the copyright, that cannot be revoked without violating the license under which you originally acquired the code.  The most notable of these added restrictions is the [[required reintegration]] clause.
[[Free software]] is open source with '''added restrictions''' on the copyright, that cannot be revoked without violating the license under which you originally acquired the code.


[[Consortium license]]s may be open source or not or mixed so that "members" have [[source code access]] and others do not.
[[Consortium license]]s may be open source or not or mixed so that members have access to sources and others do not.


A [[Green software license]] probably would not qualify, as it would restrict unpaid use to [[Green purposes]] and might forbid some uses entirely.
A [[Green software license]] probably would not qualify, as it would restrict unpaid use to [[Green purposes]] and might forbid some uses entirely.


[[Shared source]] is not open source, as it is controlled tightly by one vendor, e.g. [[Microsoft]].
[[Shared source]] is not open source, as it is controlled tightly by one vendor, e.g. [[Microsoft]].
Please note that all contributions to Consumerium development wiki are considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later (see Consumerium:Copyrights for details). If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!

To protect the wiki against automated edit spam, we kindly ask you to solve the following CAPTCHA:

Cancel Editing help (opens in new window)