Open source (disambiguation)

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Open source denotes that a product includes permission to use its source code, design documents, or content (see open source). It may also mean:

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[edit] Specific products

  • Open-source software, software which permits the use and modification of its source code
  • Open source hardware, or open hardware, computer hardware, such as microprocessors, that is designed in the same fashion as open source software.
  • Open source record label, open source music
  • Open content, another term for open source, when the distinction between source and product is less clear

[edit] Licensing

[edit] Society and Culture

[edit] Procedures

  • Open source development model
  • Open source politics, a political process that uses Internet technologies to provide a rapid feedack mechanism between political organizations and their supporters.
  • Open source governance, application of the philosophies of the open source movement to democratic principles, e.g. to enable any interested citizen to add to the creation of new policy.
  • Open Source Committee
  • Open source journalism

[edit] Organisations

Open-source software related:

[edit] Miscellaneous

  • Open Source, a radio show using open content information gathering methods hosted by Christopher Lydon
  • Open source intelligence, an intelligence gathering discipline based on information collected from open sources, i.e. information available to the general public.