What is open source licensing?
Open source describes a group of licences that all meet a certain set of conditions. The conditions are maintained by a group called the Open Source Initiative, and together they are referred to as the Open Source Definition (OSD). We will briefly review them here. An open source licence must: grant the licensee the right to distribute the program themselves, including the right to charge money for itgrant access to the program’s source codegrant the right to modify the programgrant the right to distribute modified versions of the programallow use of the program by all persons or groups in all fields of endeavourapply to everyone who receives the program, without the need for any additional agreementsapply to the program it licenses, whether the program is obtained as part of a group of programs, or on its ownallow distribution with any other softwareallow distribution in any form The desired effect of these conditions is to promote wide distribution of software, and to encourage peopl
