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  2. Public-domain software - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-domain_software

    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 ...

  3. Open source - Wikipedia

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    Free and open-source software (FOSS) or free/libre and open-source software (FLOSS) is openly shared source code that is licensed without any restrictions on usage, modification, or distribution. [ citation needed ] Confusion persists about this definition because the "free", also known as "libre", refers to the freedom of the product, not the ...

  4. Open-source software - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. Software licensed to ensure source code usage rights Open-source software shares similarities with free software and is part of the broader term free and open-source software. For broader coverage of this topic, see open-source-software movement. A screenshot of Manjaro linux running the ...

  5. Wikipedia:Software - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia mainly runs on MediaWiki, the wiki platform written in PHP, and there are a number of customized modifications of the wiki, built for other Wikimedia Foundation projects, or for external projects. (See Wikipedia:MediaWiki)

  6. Wikipedia:FAQ/Technical - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia gets own server, running English Wikipedia and after a bit meta, with rewritten PHP software. Runs both the database and the web server on one machine. One of Bomis's servers continues to host some of the other languages on UseModWiki, but most of the active ones are gradually moved over to the other server during this period.

  7. Comparison of open-source and closed-source software - Wikipedia

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    A study done on seventeen open-source and closed-source software showed that the number of vulnerabilities existing in a piece of software is not affected by the source availability model that it uses. The study used a very simple metrics of comparing the number of vulnerabilities between the open-source and closed-source software. [18]

  8. 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 ...

  9. Portal:Free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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    Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software – modified or not – to everyone free of charge. FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term encompassing free software and open-source software .