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diff --git a/Hurd/OpenSource.mdwn b/Hurd/OpenSource.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e51aa9f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Hurd/OpenSource.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# <a name="Brief_summary"> Brief summary </a> + +As stated by the Open Source Initiative on their home page: + +"The basic idea behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing. + +We in the open source community have learned that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see the source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits." + +-- <http://www.opensource.org/> + +Unlike [[FreeSoftware]], [[OpenSource]] does not put as much emphasis into the issue as the [Free Software Foundation](http://www.fsf.org). Several open source licenses exist, including the traditional [[GeneralPublicLicense]], GPL. + +In the spirit of keeping things short, please read up on the various licenses on their respective home pages. + +-- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 11 May 2002 |