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Open Source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the design and production of goods and knowledge. However, the term is commonly used in relation to or to describe computer software for which the source code is freely available. Source Codes are program instructions written as an ASCII text file; must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution. This allows users to create software content through incremental individual effort or through collaboration. Therefore, generically speaking open source refers to a program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge, i.e., open.
Open source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon or modify the code and share the changes within the community. The OSI (Open Source Initiative) issued a certification standard which specifically pints out that the source code of a computer program be made available to the general public completely free of cost. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source. The Open Source Initiative Approved License trademark and program creates a bond of trust around which developers, users, corporations and governments can organize open-source cooperation. The logic behind this move is primarily that a large group of programmers who are not interested or concerned with proprietary ownership or financial gain will produce a more useful and bug -free product for everyone to use. The key factor relies on the fact that users thoroughly review; research the program which further leads the users to detect and finally eliminate bugs in the program code and other related shortcomings; a process which commercially developed and packaged programs do not utilize. The role of the programmers constitutes reading, redistributing and modifying the source code which leads to constant and appropriate evolution of the product. The elimination of bugs and subsequent enhancement of the product takes place at a much faster rate as compared to the traditional development channels of commercial software as the information is shared throughout the open source community and does not necessarily originate and channel through a corporation’s research and development cogs. For a product to be considered “OSI Certified”, it needs to meet the following criteria:
- The author or holder of the license of the source code cannot collect royalties on the distribution of the program.
- The source code of the distributed program has to be made accessible to the users.
- The author must allow modifications and derivations of the work under the program’s original name.
- No person, group or field of endeavor can be denied access to the program.
- The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program’s being part of a particular software distribution.
- The licensed software cannot place restrictions on other software that is distributed with it.
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