Open source Software Tomáš Vaníček Faculty of Civil Engeneering (Fakulta Stavební) Czech Technical University (ČVUT) Thákurova 7, Praha Dejvice, B407
Software Proprietary Freeware Shareware Public Domain Free Open Source Commercial
Software Proprietary Freeware Shareware Public Domain Free Open Source Commercial Not to be confused
Open Source Freedom / Liberty of – Using – Improving – Distributing Posibillity of charge
Copyleft Force improvers to distribute their software under the same licension GNU/Linux is "a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches“ (Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, 2001).
Types of Software Licensions
Open Source/Free Software organization FSF (Free Software Foundation) – Richard Stallman, 1985 OSI (Open Source Initiative) – Bruce Perens, Eric S. Raymond – Netscape Corporation
OS Software 43,442 OS programs on Freshmeat – 65% on GPL licence Saving ~ $ per year
Open Source Definition (Bruce Perens, 1998) 1) Free Redistribution 2) Source Code 3) Derived Works 4) Integrity of The Autor’s Source Code
Open Source Definition (Bruce Perens, 1998) 5) No Discrimination Against Person or Group 6) No Discrimination Against Field of Using
Open Source Definition (Bruce Perens, 1998) 7) Distribution of License 8) License must not be Specific to a Product 9) License must not Restrict Other Software 10) License must be Technology neutral
Problems of the Definition Using of linked code – Static – Dynamic (Linus Thorvalds recomends using dynamic linking but not static) Using of network software Software patent – License is not a contract Copyright law Hardware problems
Major Licencies GPL (GNU Public Licence) – LGPL – Afero BSD Apache Wikipedia And many others
GNU Public Licence (GPL) Original GNU project (GNU’s not Unix) Richard Stallman, 1989
Versions of GPL Version 1, 1989 Version 2, 1991 – Liberty or Death clause – Preventing of …. Version 3, 2007
LGPL (GNU Lesser Public License),1991 More permissive Possibility of linking the code to non GPL software Using for libraries
Affero GPL Licence (AGPL, 2002) More strong Software distributed on computer network
BSD Licence Berkley Software Distribution – Unix like operating system, 1977 – University of California, Berkley – FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD More permissive then GPL
Original BSD (4-clause),1989 Distributing of binary codes Distributing of source codes Propagation of The Author – This product includes software developed by the. Not using of The name in Derived Versions without endorsement.
New BSD (3-clause),1999 Distributing of binary codes Distributing of source codes Propagation of The Author – This product includes software developed by the. Not using of The name in Derived Versions without endorsement.
Free, Simplified BSD (2-clause),1999 Distributing of binary codes Distributing of source codes Propagation of The Author – This product includes software developed by the. Not using of The name in Derived Versions without endorsement.
Apache license, ASF, % of free software More permissive then GPL Allows – Distributing – Modifying – Distributing of modified versions Non Copyleft Statement of modifying
Licenses for documentation GPL Wikipedia license …
Dual licensing MySQL – GPL – Commercial license Mozilla – Mozilla Public License – GPL – LGPL
Other Using OS Hardware OS Ecology OS Bussiness model OS Beer – Vores Øl (Copenhagen, 2001) Open Cola
Flavoring formula – 10.0 g food-grade gum arabicgum arabic – 3.50 mL orange oilorange oil – 3.00 mL waterwater – 2.75 mL lime oillime – 1.25 mL cassia oilcassia – 1.00 mL lemon oillemon – 1.00 mL nutmeg oilnutmeg – 0.25 mL coriander oilcoriander – 0.25 mL neroli oilneroli – 0.25 mL lavender oil [2][3]lavender [2][3] Concentrate formula – 2.36 kg plain granulated white table sugarsugar – 2.28 L water – 30.0 mL caramel colorcaramel color – 17.5 mL (3.50 tsp.) 75% phosphoric acid or citric acidtsp.phosphoric acidcitric acid – 10.0 mL (2.00 tsp.) flavoring formula – 2.50 mL (0.50 tsp.) caffeine (optional) [2][caffeine [2][
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List of some OS Software BSD Unix GNU Linux Gimp (Picture Manipulation program) Blender (3D modeling program)
List of some OS Software MySQL (database system) PostgreSQL (database) FreeMind (Mind mapping application) Apache (www server) Mozilla (Internet browser) Ruby (Script programming language) Grass (Geographical information system) Open Office (Office system) Joomla! (Content Management System) And many many others ….