The Open Source Definition

Open Source Initiative. (1998). The Open Source Definition.

Type

Standard

Intellectual base

Reference work

Year

1998

Link

https://opensource.org/osd

Cited from

systems_cybernetics

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Open Publication for Interoperability
  • In open-source software, package releases on registries pair permissive licenses with stable handles and disciplined version commitments, enabling the modern composition-by-dependency ecosystem.

    This sourceSets the criteria an open-source license must meet — free redistribution, available source code, and explicit permission for modifications and derived works — the license-and-redistribution discipline that lets package registries support composition-by-dependency.

    Supported in partVerified against the work's full text

    The OSD supplies the license criteria (free redistribution, derived works, no restrictions on aggregated software) but nothing on registries, stable handles, version commitments or dependency ecosystems.

    “The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.”

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Domain-specific

• Open-Source Artificial Intelligence

  • This sourceSupplies the software lineage: free redistribution, source in the preferred form for modification, derived works, nondiscrimination, and technology-neutral terms.

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