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Open Source Software Case Study

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Question 1

Describe the difference between open source and free software

Free software is the brainchild of Richard Stallman who grew frustrated at the rise of proprietary software because he saw it as a violation of rights to innovate and improve on existing software. He created the GNU project which is an operating system that gives users the freedom to edit and change the source code to suit their computation and share it as they see fit. He later founded the Free Software Foundation in 1985 with the main aim of promoting the idea of free software to a wider public. The FSF is of a strong notion that, for a software to be considered free it has to guarantee a certain 4 essential freedoms, namely the freedom to run the program for any …show more content…

Open Source Software refers to software that is subjected to a license that makes its source code available to everyone. A good example of OSS is Wordpress, a software application that allows people create a wide range of websites while managing their own content. The source code can be edited to suit the needs of the user even to the extent of modifying its mode of operation. However, there are some legal issues associated with the use of OSS. Some of these issues but not limited to are discussed.

To start with, OSS licensing comes in many forms or types with different terms of usage.
While each license follows the open source definitions, they are different. Ranging from widely used popular licenses to ones used to single projects to highly specialized and special purpose licenses. Example of such licensing is the GNU, General Public License which has a clause that prevents and forbids the payment of royalties on copying of the software. Another is the BSD, Berkeley Software Distribution which has a copyright notice and disclaimer requiring users of the software to display on every use of the software. Others include the Apache License, MIT License …show more content…

Can open source software be described as being in public domain?

Many people assume that public domain software must be open source. Although free, it would be totally wrong to treat public domain software as open source. These two terms may mean completely different things to different individuals. I will try to describe the two terms and what they may mean to certain individuals.
Open source software refers to software that has been made available under a copyright approved by the Open Source Initiative and conforms with the definition of open source. Open source licenses and approval means an individual has unconditional rights to use the software for any purpose. You also have the unconditional rights to create new software based on that software for your own use, but with a conditional right to share the software whether modified or not
Public Domain means software (or indeed anything else that could be copyrighted) that is not restricted by copyright. It may be this way because the copyright has expired, or because the person entitled to control the copyright has disclaimed that

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