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Open Source: What it is and How to Contribute
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chore: copy update concerning oss and foss - chapter 1 #310

Closed schalkneethling closed 6 months ago

schalkneethling commented 6 months ago

This updates some of the copy in chapter one to more accurately reflect the meaning of open source and the relationshiop to FOSS. This is based on an email thread of the teaching open source mailing list.

emmet0r commented 6 months ago

I think it could improve readability to add commas just before and after "also sometimes referred to as Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)" but this otherwise looks great to me 🙂

schalkneethling commented 6 months ago

I think it could improve readability to add commas just before and after "also sometimes referred to as Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)" but this otherwise looks great to me 🙂

Good point!

pearcej commented 6 months ago

I think the references to the licencing is an improvement, but we have lost the meaning of the word "open". @AbcSxyZ, @schalkneethling, and @emmet0r on the sentence "Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and/or redistribution, depending upon the specific licensing."

schalkneethling commented 6 months ago

I think the references to the licencing is an improvement, but we have lost the meaning of the word "open". @AbcSxyZ, @schalkneethling, and @emmet0r on the sentence "Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and/or redistribution, depending upon the specific licensing."

Something like this:

Open source software, also called Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), is source code made freely available for possible modification and/or redistribution, depending upon the specific licensing.