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As described in the Open Source Initiative's Definition [1], Open
Source software is software that has:
* Free Redistribution
* Source Code
* Licensing in regards to:
* derived works
* integrity of the source code
...and so on
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However, this isn't unanimous amongst the open source community.
The Free Software Foundation [2] has a slightly different view [3].
You can check out their licenses at this address [4].
Regarded as pioneers of the open source movement, this organisation
is behind the popular GPL licence [5] that most linux distributions
are released under.
Links:
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[1] http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
[2] http://www.gnu.org
[3] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html#AboutFreeSoftware
[4] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html
[5] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
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