Sunday, December 9, 2007

Open Source Software

Software for which the underlying programming code is available to the users so that they may read it, make changes to it, and build new versions of the software incorporating their changes. There are many types of Open Source Software, mainly differing in the licensing term under which (altered) copies of the source code may (or must be) redistributed. Open Source software ambigouously misconception with the freeware term.

Perangkat lunak yang kode sumber pemrogramannya terbuka bagi setiap pengguna, sehingga tiap orang dapat melihat, mengubah, atau memodifikasinya. Ada berbagai jenis perangkat lunak Open Source, umumnya dibedakan berdasarkan ketentuan mengenai penyertaan kembali salinan kode sumber atau perubahannya. Pengertian software Open Source sering dirancukan oleh istilah software gratis.

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