Scot Colford, "Explaining free and Open Source software," - 0 views
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IMT122 Reading List Essential Reading Operating Systems Mobile Platforms & Software Week 02 Topic 02 IMT122
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Ten criteria must be met in order for a software distribution to be considered open source:
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Apache Software License 2.0 (www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html) New BSD License (www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php) GNU General Public License (GPL) (www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) (www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) MIT License (www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php) Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) (www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html) Common Development and Distribution License (www.sun.com/cddl/cddl.html) Common Public License 1.0 (www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-cpl.html) Eclipse Public License (www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html) [5].
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common misconception, alluded to above, is that since the source code is freely distributed without royalty or licensing fee, open source applications are free of cost.
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Free and open source software application users, on the other hand, must rely on development communities for support.
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The pervasiveness of the World Wide Web guarantees that nearly every information organization is using free or open source software to perform some function.