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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
However, this isn't unanimous amoungst 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 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
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