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Open source denotes that a product includes permission to use its source code, design documents, or content (see open source). It may also mean:

Contents 1 Specific products 2 Licensing 3 Society and culture 4 Procedures 5 Organisations 6 Miscellaneous

[edit] Specific products

• Open-source software, software which permits the use and modification of its source code
• Open source hardware, or open hardware, computer hardware, such as microprocessors, that is designed in the same fashion as open source software.
• Open source record label, open source music
• Open content, another term for open source, when the distinction between source and product is less clear

[edit] Licensing

• Open Source Definition, as used by the Open Source Initiative.
• Open-source license, a copyright license that makes the source code available with a product.

[edit] Society and culture

• Open-source advocacy
• Open source ethics
• Open-source evangelist, is a person who promotes open-source software.
• Open source funding
• Open source government, open source in government
• Open-source unionism, an innovative model for labor union organization.
• Open source movement, a movement that advocates open source software.

[edit] Procedures

• Open source development model
• Open source politics, a political process that uses Internet technologies to provide a rapid feedack mechanism between political organizations and their supporters.
• Open source governance, application of the philosophies of the open source movement to democratic principles, e.g. to enable any interested citizen to add to the creation of new policy.
• Open Source Committee
• Open source journalism

[edit] Organisations

Open-source software related:

• Open Source Initiative, an organization dedicated to promote open source.
• Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a non-profit corporation that provides space for open-source project.
• Open Source Technology group, news, forums, and other resources for IT

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Open Source, a radio show using open content information gathering methods hosted by Christopher Lydon
• Open source intelligence, an intelligence gathering discipline based on information collected from open sources, i.e. information available to the general public.