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| ===== What is open source? ===== | ===== What is open source? ===== | ||
| - | Basically, "open source" means that you can view the source code of a program. However, usually it also implies the code to be licensed under a "free software" license (free as in "free bird", not "free beer") like the [[GPL]] or [[BSD]] license, so that the source code can be freely redistributed, modified and used. Typically, in such a case the program does **only make use of other open source or at least free components**. | + | Basically, "open source" means that you can view the source code of a program. However, usually it also implies the code to be licensed under a "free software" license (free as in "free bird", not "free beer") like the [[wp>GNU_General_Public_License|GPL]] or [[wp>BSD_License|BSD]] license, so that the source code can be freely redistributed, modified and used. Typically, in such a case the program does **only make use of other open source or at least free components**. |
| ===== Why isn't CDBurnerXP open source? ===== | ===== Why isn't CDBurnerXP open source? ===== | ||