Free and open-source software

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that gives users the right to use, share, modify, and distribute the software...

rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative...

history of free and open-source software begins at the advent of computer software in the early half of the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, computer...

list of free and open-source software (FOSS) packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits...

popular free/open-source software. For a narrative explaining the overall development, see the related history of free and open-source software. The Achievements...

open-source licenses. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it considers free. FSF's free software and OSI's open-source licenses...

Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...

development and collaboration. Free Software Movement of India International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) Free Software and Open Source Foundation...

movement. Both free and open-source software (FOSS) and open-source hardware are created by this open-source culture movement and apply a similar concept to...

is free software (or free and open-source software) as conferred by the copyright holder. Free-software licenses are applied to software in source code...