open-source movement

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The open-source movement is a collaborative software development and licensing philosophy that promotes freely accessible, modifiable, and shareable source code, fostering community-driven innovation and transparency.


Statements (89)
Predicate Object
instanceOf licensing philosophy
social movement
software development methodology
advocates interoperability
open development processes in government and public sector
open standards
vendor independence
associatedWithOrganization Apache Software Foundation
Canonical Ltd.
Debian Project
Eclipse Foundation
Free Software Foundation
Linux Foundation
Mozilla Foundation
Open Source Initiative
Red Hat
coinedTerm open source
coinedTermInYear 1998
criticizedFor maintainer burnout
sustainability challenges
unequal corporate influence
emergedIn 1990s
encourages code sharing
collaborative software development
community-driven innovation
forking and branching of projects
transparent development processes
hasCorePrinciple access to source code
collaborative development
freedom to modify software
freedom to redistribute software
meritocracy
peer review
transparency
hasEconomicModel crowdfunding
dual licensing
open core
sponsorship and donations
support and services
hasImpactOn cloud computing
mobile operating systems
programming languages
software industry
web infrastructure
hasKeyFigure Bruce Perens
Eric S. Raymond
Lawrence Lessig
Linus Torvalds
Richard Stallman
Tim O'Reilly
hasNotableProject Android operating system
Apache HTTP Server
GNU operating system
Git
Kubernetes
LibreOffice
Linux kernel
Mozilla Firefox
MySQL
PHP
PostgreSQL
Python programming language
influenced open access movement
open data movement
open government movement
open hardware movement
open science movement
influencedBy free software movement
opposes proprietary software restrictions
promotes open-source software
relatedConcept collaborative innovation
commons-based peer production
knowledge commons
peer production
relatedTo free software movement
reliesOn distributed collaboration tools
version control systems
supportsLicense Apache License
BSD licenses
GNU General Public License
MIT License
Mozilla Public License
supportsLicenseType copyleft licenses
permissive licenses
usesDefinitionFrom Open Source Definition
usesInfrastructure code review systems
issue trackers
mailing lists
public code hosting platforms

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Eric Raymond
GNU Project ("open source movement")
influenced
Larry Wall ("open-source software movement")
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