If you want to look for consensus, there's no better place than Wikipedia. > Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license i

If you want to look for consensus, there's no better place than Wikipedia. > Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software Citations for this sentence (many more in the full article): - https://books.google.com/books?id=04jG7TTLujoC&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=04jG7TTLujoC&pg=PA4#v=onep... - https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/5105 https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ital/article/view/5105