Open source

In production and development, open source as a development model promotes

• a) universal access via free license to a product's design or blueprint
• b) universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone.

Generally, open source refers to a computer program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design. Open-source code is typically created as a collaborative effort in which programmers improve upon the code and share the changes within the community. Open source sprouted in the technological community as a response to proprietary software owned by corporations.

Open source or open-source, most commonly refers to:

• Open-source license
• Open-source model
• Open-source software

Open source may also refer to:

Agriculture, economy, manufacturing and production

• Open-source appropriate technology (OSAT), is designed for environmental, ethical, cultural, social, political, economic, and community aspects
• Open-source architecture (OSArc), emerging procedures in imagination and formation of virtual and real spaces within an inclusive universal infrastructure
• Open-source cola, cola soft drinks made to open-sourced recipes
• Open Source Ecology (OSE), a network of farmers, engineers, architects and supporters striving to manufacture the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS)
• Open-source hardware, or open hardware, computer hardware, such as microprocessors, that is designed in the same fashion as open source software
• Open-source product development (OSPD), collaborative product and process openness of open-source hardware for any interested participants
• Open-source robotics, physical artifacts of the subject are offered by the open design movement

Media

• Open-source film, open source movies
• Open-source journalism, a spectrum on online publications, forms of innovative publishing of online journalism, and content voting
• Open-source record label, open source music
• "Open Source", a 1960s rocksong performed by The Magic Mushrooms
• Open Source (radio show), a radio show using open content information gathering methods hosted by Christopher Lydon

Procedures

• Open-source intelligence

Society

• Open-source curriculum (OSC), an online instructional resource that can be freely used, distributed and modified
• Open-source governance, open source in government
• Open-source religion in the creation of belief systems
• Open-source unionism, an innovative model for labor union organization

Software

• Free and open-source software, or (FOSS) or (FLOSS), is openly shared source code that is licensed without any restrictions on usage, modification, or distribution
• Open-source software advocacy
• Open-source software development
• Open-source-software movement
• Open-source video games
• The Open Source Definition, as used by the Open Source Initiative for open source software

See also

• Open Source Lab (disambiguation), several laboratories