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'Open-source' vs 'open source' #23

Closed jnicho02 closed 5 years ago

jnicho02 commented 5 years ago

'Open-source' with a hyphen means "released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose".

'Open source' without a hyphen means "source code is published so that people may see it"

Nakaner commented 5 years ago

I doubt that readers are aware of the great difference caused by a hyphen. Therefore, I cannot guess what the authors of the abstracts thought. That's why I will unify all variations of "open source" to "open-source" with a hyphen.

The programme committee is quite anti-proprietary this year, so I assume that they were quite strict w.r.t. open-washing things (see the call for papers for reference).