Links for Presentation on Free Software and Open Source Licenses

General Presentation Links

• http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html
  Where the open source definition came from.
• http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-source.html
  Historical document from one of the publicizers of the term "open source".
• http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.php
  The Open Source Initiative's own official definition of "open source".
• http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
  List of all the OSI-certified open source licenses, with full text of each license.
• http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=define%3A+open+source&btnG=Search
  Use Google to see some of the many different and conflicting meanings people out there are giving to the phrase "open source".

  define: open source

  On 2 November 2004, the first result Google gave me was from an article in the business magazine Fortune:

  Any software whose code is available for users to look at and modify freely. Linux is the best-known example; others include Apache, the dominant software for servers that dish out corporate web pages. www.fortune.com/fortune/techatwork/articles/0,15114,368947,00.html

  This contradicts various other definitions such as the OSI's.