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Open source promotes universal access via an open-source or free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint.<ref name="LakhaniVonHippel2003">{{cite journal|last1=Lakhani|first1=K.R.|last2=von Hippel|first2=E.|date=June 2003|title=How Open Source Software Works: Free User to User Assistance|journal=Research Policy|volume=32|issue=6|pages=923–943 | issn = 0048-7333 |doi=10.1016/S0048-7333(02)00095-1|hdl=1721.1/70028|ssrn=290305|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref name="GerberMolefo2010">{{cite book|title=Proceedings of the SAICSIT 2010 Conference — Fountains of Computing Research|last1=Gerbe| first1 = Aurona |last2=Molefo | first2 = Onkgopotse |last3=Van der Merwe | first3 = Alta |publisher=ACM Press|year=2010|isbn=978-1-60558-950-3 |editor-last=Kotze|editor-first=P.|pages=75–85|chapter=Documenting open-source migration processes for re-use|doi=10.1145/1899503.1899512|display-editors=3|editor2-first=A.|editor2-last=Gerber|editor3-first = A. |editor3-last=van der Merwe|editor4-first=N.|editor4-last=Bidwell|citeseerx=10.1.1.1033.7791|s2cid=11970697}}</ref> Before the phrase ''open source'' became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of other terms, such as ''free software'', ''[[shareware]]'', and ''public ___domain software''. ''Open source'' gained hold with the rise of the [[Internet]].<ref>{{harvnb|Weber|2004}}{{page needed|date=February 2014}}</ref> The open-source software movement arose to clarify copyright, licensing, ___domain, and consumer issues.

Generally, open source refers to a computer program in which the source code is available to the general public for use orusage, modification from its original design., Codeand is released under the termspublication of a software license. Depending on the license terms, others may then download, modify, and publish their version (fork) back to the community. Many large formal institutions have sprung up to support the development of the open-source movement, including the Apache Software Foundation, which supports community projects such as the open-source framework and the open-source HTTP server Apache HTTP.

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