An open-source software license is a statement that anyone is free to use your source code in whatever way they want.
Open source rights:
* a user can create and distribute copies of the source code
* a user can obtain a program's source code
* a user can modify the source code
:) Academic
- Generally, academic software is stapled together in a tight deadline an expert user has to coerce it into running and it's not pretty code.
- Academic code is about "proof of concept".
- Most open source licenses requires source and modifications to be shared with binaries and absolved author of legal liability.
- It should require that source and modifications used to validate scientific claims be released with those claims.
- Openness should also hinge on publication, once a paper is accepted, the licenses should force the release of modifications.
:) Community
- Colleges and universities have used the term community source to refer to a type of community coordination mechanism that builds on the practices of open source communities.
- The software these collective efforts are distributed via an approved Open Source Initiative (OSI) license.
- Copyright of the software often is held by and independent foundation.
- An important distinctive characteristic of community source as opposed to plain open source is that the community includes some organizations or institutions that are committing their resources to the community, in the form of human resources or other financial elements.
- In this way, the open source project will have both more solid support, rather than purely volunteer efforts as found in other open source communities and will possibly be shaped by the strategic requirements of the institution committing the resource.
:) Companies
- Open source software can be sold and use commercially.
- The use of dual-licensing provides an offer of the software under an open source license but also under a separate proprietary license term.
- With permissive software, any copany can distribute the package without the source or software freedoms.
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