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Terminology
The term knowledge is taken to include:
Content such as music, films, books
Data be it scientific, historical, geographic or otherwise
Government and other administrative information
Software is excluded despite its obvious centrality because it is already adequately addressed by previous work.
The term work will be used to denote the item or piece of knowledge which is being transferred.
The term package may also be used to denote a collection of works. Of course such a package may be considered a work in itself.
The term license refers to the legal license under
which the work is made available. Where no license has been made this
should be interpreted as referring to the resulting default l...
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The Definition
An open software service is one:
Whose data is open as defined by the Open Knowledge Definition
with the exception that where the data is personal in nature the data
need only be made available to the user (i.e. the owner of that
account).
Whose source code is:
Free/Open Source Software (that is available under a license in the OSI or FSF approved list — see note 3).
Made available to the users of the service.
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