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2. Open-source license - Wikipedia

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   Instead of imposing restrictions, free software explicitly provided freedoms to the recipient. [14] Bruce Perens, author of the Open Source Definition. In the 90s, the term "open source" was coined as an alternative label for free software, and specific criteria were laid out to determine which licenses covered free and open-source software.

3. List of free and open-source software packages - Wikipedia

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   Moodle – Free and open-source learning management system. OLAT – Web-based Learning Content Management System. Omeka – Content management system for online digital collections. openSIS – Web-based Student Information and School Management system. Sakai Project – Web-based learning management system.

4. Public-domain software - Wikipedia

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   Permissive-licensed software, which is a kind of free and open-source software, shares most characteristics of earlier public-domain software but stands on the legal basis of copyright law. In the 1980s Richard Stallman , who for long worked in an academic environment of "public-domain"-like software sharing, noticed the emergence of ...

5. OpenDNS - Wikipedia

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   OpenDNS is an American company providing Domain Name System (DNS) resolution services—with features such as phishing protection, optional content filtering, and DNS lookup in its DNS servers—and a cloud computing security product suite, Umbrella, designed to protect enterprise customers from malware, botnets, phishing, and targeted online attacks.

6. Free software - Wikipedia

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   Shown are the GNOME desktop environment, the GNU Emacs text editor, the GIMP image editor, and the VLC media player. Free software, libre software, libreware [1] [2] or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and ...

7. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

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   The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is one such organization keeping a list of open-source licenses. [ 1] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it considers free. [ 2] FSF's free software and OSI's open-source licenses together are called FOSS licenses. There are licenses accepted by the OSI which are not free as per the Free ...

8. Open-source software - Wikipedia

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   Open-source software(OSS) is computer softwarethat is released under a licensein which the copyrightholder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the softwareand its source codeto anyone and for any purpose. [1][2]Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative, public manner.

9. Free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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   "Free and open-source software" (FOSS) is an umbrella term for software that is simultaneously considered both free software and open-source software. [5] The precise definition of the terms "free software" and "open-source software" applies them to any software distributed under terms that allow users to use, modify, and redistribute said software in any manner they see fit, without requiring ...