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The Open Source Definition is a document published by the Open Source Initiative, to determine whether a software license can be labeled with the "Open Source Initiative approved" certification mark.[1][2]
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considered open licences. Thedefinition itself was derived from theOpenSourceDefinition for software. OKFN summarise the document as: Open means anyone...
Opensource is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use thesource code...
TheOpenSource Initiative (OSI) is the steward of theOpenSourceDefinition, the set of rules that define opensource software. It is a California public-benefit...
Works" (as also in theOpenSourceDefinition and Free Software Definition). For such free/open content both movements recommend the same three Creative...
in an open manner. The concept is related to opensource and theOpenDefinition, whose first versions bore the title "Open Knowledge Definition", is derived...
also used by theOpenSource Initiative (OSI) under the name "TheOpenSourceDefinition". Despite the philosophical differences between the free software...
Software Definition, OpenSourceDefinition, Debian Free Software Guidelines, Definition of Free Cultural Works and TheOpenDefinition. These definitions were...
published in 1997, and TheOpenSourceDefinition, published in 1998. The BSD-based operating systems, such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, do not have...
violation of Points 6 and 9 of theOpenSourceDefinition as used by theOpenSource Initiative. The SSPL is based on the GNU Affero General Public License...
section of theOpenSourceDefinition as well as the first freedom put forth in The Free Software Definition (freedom 0). Open Music is one of the general...
TheDefinition of Free Cultural Works evaluates and recommends compatible free content licenses. TheOpen Content Project by David A. Wiley in 1998 was...
commercial use and are thus incompatible with both the Free Software Definition and theOpenSourceDefinition. The JRL is a research license to be used for non-commercial...
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