Tentang opensouce
Definisi open source dari berbagai sumber dapat dikategorikan sebagai berikut :
- Open source software is similar in idea to “free software” but slightly less rigid than the free software movement. Users of open source software are (generally) able to view the source code, alter and re-distribute open source software. There is however less of an emphasis in the open source movement on the right of information and source code to be free and in some cases companies are able to develop proprietary products based on open source ones.
floss.meraka.org.za/postnukeII/modules.php - In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit. (Historically, the makers of proprietary software have generally not made source code available.) Open source software is usually developed as a public collaboration and made freely available.
home.comcast.net/~mtsonata/FinalProject/glossary.html - This is a less-confusing name for what is also called ‘Free Software’. It describes the development method used for many pieces of software, including the Linux kernel, where the source is freely available for anyone to work on, or modify, or learn from, or use in other projects.
www.aleph1.co.uk/armlinux/book/glossary.html - This is the term that represents virtually the same thing as “free software”, only it’s newer, more popular and doesn’t have the ambiguity problem. It amplifies the freedom to modify software as it points out to the fact that this software has the open source code which allows it to be freely modified by everyone. However, many believe that it doesn’t emphasize the importance of freedom enough, as it says nothing in general about other very important freedoms. …
www.libervis.com/modules/wiwimod/index.php - Information that is publicly available (for example, any member of the public could lawfully obtain information by request or observation), as well as other unclassified information that has limited public distribution or access. Open- source information also includes any information that may be used in an unclassified context without compromising national security or intelligence sources or methods. …
www.intelligence.gov/0-glossary.shtml
Dari dafinisi-defini diatas yang dapat disimpulkan penulis, open source adalah suatu informasi teknologi yang lebih mengarah pada perangkat lunak yang bercirikan sebagai berikut :
- Pengguna dapat melihat dan mengambil kode sumber (source code) dari suatu aplikasi dengan lisensi free.
- Pengguna dapat merubah, memperbaiki (bug) dan mengcompile ulang dari suatu aplikasi.
- Pengguna dapat mendistribusikan ulang hasil dari recompile dia dengan tetap mengacu/menampilkan pencipta dari si aplikasi itu sendiri.
