%0 Journal Article %1 gacek_etal2004 %A Gacek, Cristina %A Arief, Budi %C Los Alamitos, CA, USA %D 2004 %I IEEE Computer Society Press %J IEEE Softw. %K FLOSS open-source open-source-software %N 1 %P 34--40 %T The Many Meanings of Open Source %U http://bscw.cs.ncl.ac.uk/pub/bscw.cgi/d55451/TheManyMeaningsOfOpenSource.pdf %V 21 %X The term Open Source is widely applied to describe some software development methodologies. This paper does not provide a judgment on the open source approach, but exposes the fact that simply stating that a project is open source does not provide a precise description of the approach used to support the project. By taking a multi-disciplinary point of view, we propose a collection of characteristics that are common, as well as some that vary among open source projects. The set of open source characteristics we found can be used as a tick-list both for analysing and for setting up open source projects. Our tick-list also provides a starting point for understanding the many meanings of the term open source.

@article{gacek_etal2004, abstract = {{The term Open Source is widely applied to describe some software development methodologies. This paper does not provide a judgment on the open source approach, but exposes the fact that simply stating that a project is open source does not provide a precise description of the approach used to support the project. By taking a multi-disciplinary point of view, we propose a collection of characteristics that are common, as well as some that vary among open source projects. The set of open source characteristics we found can be used as a tick-list both for analysing and for setting up open source projects. Our tick-list also provides a starting point for understanding the many meanings of the term open source.}}, added-at = {2011-05-05T11:13:39.000+0200}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, author = {Gacek, Cristina and Arief, Budi}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2376bcacdafe6228ce6053b8abbc13e6b/antje}, interhash = {fd86a7ff26be3d663c120211ce36c7d4}, intrahash = {376bcacdafe6228ce6053b8abbc13e6b}, journal = {IEEE Softw.}, keywords = {FLOSS open-source open-source-software}, month = jan, number = 1, pages = {34--40}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press}, timestamp = {2014-01-02T15:38:38.000+0100}, title = {{The Many Meanings of Open Source}}, url = {http://bscw.cs.ncl.ac.uk/pub/bscw.cgi/d55451/TheManyMeaningsOfOpenSource.pdf}, urldate = {02.01.2014}, volume = 21, year = 2004 }