Free and Open Source Software Licenses Explained

Software Development Using Open Source and Free Software Licenses

The purpose of open source and free software licensing is to permit and encourage the involvement by licensees in improvement, modification, and distribution of the licensed work. This open development model of software development is the unique strength of the open source and free software movement. While the open source and free software licenses already discussed approach open software devel...

Retrieving Open Source Software Licenses

Software Licenses, Open Source Components, and Open Architectures

A substantial number of enterprises and independent software vendors are adopting a strategy in which software-intensive systems are developed with an open architecture (OA) that may contain open source software (OSS) components or components with open APIs. The emerging challenge is to realize the benefits of openness when components are subject to different copyright or property licenses. In ...

Free/Open Source Software

This position paper provides an overview of the Open Source Software movement and defines how companies can approach, exploit, and learn from it. More specifically, this position paper will first provide the needed details on Open Source licensing models – a key element to be aware of in order to safely approach Open Source. Then, it will provide motivating rationales for getting involved in Op...

Free software, Open source software, licenses. A short presentation including a procedure for research software and data dissemination

As H2020 approaches and open access policies spread in the European research community ([9]), it becomes more important to revisit the basic concepts in software distribution such as free software, open source software, licenses: they should be considered before any research software dissemination. We also propose here a distribution procedure that can be adapted for software and data dissemina...