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What is the meaning of open source? How it is associated with the meaning of heavily documented?


  
Total Answers and Comments: 2 Last Update: April 29, 2009     Asked by: gaurishanker30 
  
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January 23, 2009 01:37:33   #1  
mahendraselvi Member Since: January 2009   Contribution: 1    

RE: Open Source
Computer software for which the source code is freely available .You can customize as per you needs.
 
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April 29, 2009 09:00:41   #2  
siddharthb Member Since: April 2009   Contribution: 1    

RE: Open Source
Yes and Open Source Software refers to provision of source code for customization as per your need for which good documentation is essential.

Also Detailed documentation about licencing type is expected to be included.
eg GPLv2 GPLv3 Apache common Licence etc ...

 
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