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2. Free software - Wikipedia

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   Freeware (green) seldom expose their source code. [13] Free software differs from: proprietary software, such as Microsoft Office, Windows, Adobe Photoshop, Facebook or FaceTime. Users cannot study, change, and share their source code. freeware or gratis [14] software, which is a category of proprietary software that does not require payment ...

3. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

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   This table lists for each license what organizations from the FOSS community have approved it – be it as a "free software" or as an "open source" license – , how those organizations categorize it, and the license compatibility between them for a combined or mixed derivative work. Organizations usually approve specific versions of software ...

4. Software license - Wikipedia

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   Diagram of software under various licenses according to the FSF and their The Free Software Definition: on the left side "free software", on the right side "proprietary software". On both sides, and therefore mostly orthogonal, "free download" . A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software.

5. Freeware - Wikipedia

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   Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. There is no agreed-upon set of rights, license , or EULA that defines freeware unambiguously; every publisher defines its own rules for the freeware it offers.

6. Free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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   "Free and open-source software" (FOSS) is an umbrella term for software that is considered free software and/or open-source software. [1] 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 that they pay ...

7. Open-source software development - Wikipedia

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   A diagram displaying the process-data structure of open-source software development is shown on the right. In this picture, the phases of open-source software development are displayed, along with the corresponding data elements. This diagram is made using the meta-modeling and meta-process modeling techniques.

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

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   This is a list of free and open-source software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses.Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source. [1]

9. Comparison of open-source operating systems - Wikipedia

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   Name License Kernel type Kernel programming language Kernel thread support OS family Oldest non-EOL version [Note 1]Forks; Linux: GPL version 2 only: Monolithic with modules : C: 1:1 Unix-like