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2. Open-source license - Wikipedia

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   Popular open source licenses include the Apache License, the MIT License, the GNU General Public License (GPL), the BSD Licenses, the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source ...

3. MIT License - Wikipedia

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   The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has used many licenses for software since its creation; for example, MIT offers four licensing options for the FFTW C source code library, one of which is the GPL v2.0 and the other three of which are not open-source. The term "MIT License" has also been used to refer to the Expat License (used for the ...

4. List of commercial video games with available source code

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   In August 2014 the source code for the game's X-Ray Engine 1.5.10 became available on GitHub under a non-open-source license. The successor's engine, X-ray 1.6.02, became available too. [220] [221] As of October 2019 the xray-16 engine community fork, "OpenXRay", achieved compiling state and support for the two games Call of Pripyat and Clear ...

5. Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open ...

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   Subject. Linux kernel. Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code is a 2004 report by Kenneth Brown. [1] The report suggests that the Linux kernel may have been created or distributed illegally and that open-source software may be generally subject to such abuses. The report states that the Linux kernel was written ...

6. History of free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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   In January 2016 Microsoft released Chakra as open source under the MIT License; the code is available on GitHub. Microsoft's stance on open source has shifted as the company began endorsing more open-source software. In 2016, Steve Balmer, former CEO of Microsoft, has retracted his statement that Linux is a malignant cancer.

7. Open-source-software movement - Wikipedia

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   The open-source-software movement is a movement that supports the use of open-source licenses for some or all software, as part of the broader notion of open collaboration. [1] The open-source movement was started to spread the concept/idea of open-source software . Programmers who support the open-source-movement philosophy contribute to the ...

8. Open source license litigation - Wikipedia

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   Jacobsen made code available for public download under an open source public license, Artistic License 1.0, which Katzer copied into their own commercial software products without recognizing the code's source. Jacobsen argued that the terms of the license defined the scope of the code's potential uses and that use outside these restrictions ...

9. List of open-source video games - Wikipedia

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   Simulation. Cart Life's Free License ( permissive license ) Cart Life's Free License ( permissive license ), Freeware. 2D. In March 2014 the source code and game was made available by Richard Hofmeier for free online, saying he was finished supporting the game. [4] [5] Winner of the IGF 2013 award. [6]