Characteristics Of OSS
OSS has many characteristics the important ones are:i) It is generally acquired freely
ii) Manufacturer or developer has no right to claim
royalties on the distribution or use
iii) Source code is accessible to the user and distributed with the software
iv) No denial to an individual or to a group to access
source code of the software
v) It has provision of modifications and derivations
under the programme’s original name
vi) Rights of facilities attached to the programme must not depend on the programme’s being part of a particular software distribution
vii) Licensed software can not place restriction on other software that is distributed with it
viii) Distribution of License should not be specific to a
product and License should be technologyneutral,etc.
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