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Open-source software movement

The open-source software movement is a social movement that supports the use of open-source licenses for some or all software, as part of the broader notion of open collaboration. The movement emerged to promote the development and adoption of open-source software.

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Social structure of open source contribution teams

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Legal issues

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Youth engagement

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Legal issues

Formalization

Social structure of open source contribution teams

Youth engagement

Motivations of programmers

Gender diversity of programmers

Evidence of open-source adoption

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Open-source software movement

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Avg. degree1.96
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Open-source software movement

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Open-source software movement → social movement that supports the use of open-source licenses for some or all software

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open-source software open source code movement development projects community free contributors proprietary developers microsoft programmers linux use used project also

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Open-source software movementis asocial movement that supports the use of open-source licenses for some or all software0.90text
the Creative Commonsinstance ofSeveral organized groups0.80text
global development agencies have also adopted the open-source concepts according to their own aimsinstance ofSeveral organized groups0.80text
for their own purposes.The factors affecting the open-source movement's legal formalization are primarily based on recent political discussion over copyrightinstance ofSeveral organized groups0.80text
appropriationinstance ofSeveral organized groups0.80text
and intellectual propertyinstance ofSeveral organized groups0.80text
can help contributors at the various levels of involvement in the projectinstance ofhow tools0.80text
and further understand how the distributed nature of open source software may affect the productivity of developers.Some researchers have disagreed with this modelinstance ofhow tools0.80text
Outreachy that aim to support more womeninstance ofThere are initiatives0.80text
other underrepresented gender identities to participate in open-source softwareinstance ofThere are initiatives0.80text
ageinstance ofthe importance of an individual in the community depends on the quality of their individual contributions and not demographic factors0.80text
raceinstance ofthe importance of an individual in the community depends on the quality of their individual contributions and not demographic factors0.80text

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