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Open source (disambiguation)

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Open source denotes that a product includes permission to use its source code, design documents, or content (see open source and open content - the latter deals with non-software deliverables or where the distinction between source code and other content is unclear or complex).

It may also mean:

  • open source (journalism) - a publicly readable source cited in regular journalism. Contrast open source journalism which is an alternative name for blogging and part of participatory democracy.
  • Open Source Intelligence, an intelligence gathering discipline based on information collected from open sources, i.e. information available to the general public. Unlike journalism the persons who rely on and compile open sources in the intelligence community do not have access to other more restricted data, so open source (intelligence) is equivalent to the practice.

Specific products

Licensing

Society and Culture

Procedures

  • Open politics (sometimes known as Open source politics), a political process that uses Internet technologies to provide a rapid feedback mechanism between political organizations and their supporters.
  • Open source governance, application of the philosophies of the open source movement to democratic principles, e.g. to enable any interested citizen to add to the creation of new policy.
  • Open Source Committee

Organisations

Open-source software related:

Non-software related:

Miscellaneous