How Does Open Source Software Work?

Last year, everyone was talking about Apple’s iPhone. But the Open Handset Alliance’s Android mobile phone platform could end up having an even greater effect on the industry because it revolves around open source software code that may be freely enhanced or augmented by anyone. According to Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), to be considered open source, software must be readable by humans and allow derivative works to be made from it without royalties, among other requirements.

Open source software can be licensed there are more than 60 such licenses, says Tiemann, and two of the most popular, the GNU General Public License (GPL) and the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license, account for about 90 percent of the open source world. But each license allows varying degrees of freedom. For example, the GPL does not necessarily allow access to the original source code, and the BSD allows users to make as many copies of the software as they please.

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