What is Open Source?

We can say that, the opensource means the software may contain the source code, which is the very necessary thing. We cant say that the software which are freely available are known as open source software, in opensource s/w the licencing is the very important thing.

So conclusion is that every open source s/w is a free software, but not every free s/w is an opensource s/w.


The main reason of licensing is that, the s/w is freely available, and anyone who want to customize the s/w for their purpose they can just do it by their own. This is the main key feature of open source software.

opensource is advantageous it is just matter of applying some logic. After all one of the central idea or s/w already there, why you should make again or reinvent again. All the s/c is available you just give your some effort and make the s/w very effective, then the end result will be better, So there is no point of reinventing, if it already.