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1. A brief history of the free movement
The free software movement was born of the scientific community's desire to share and disseminate knowledge.
In the early 1980s, the expansion and popularization of computing gave rise to a new, highly profitable market: software publishing. Publishers created and sold their products without disclosing the source code, in order to reserve a monopoly on use and impose their own conditions.
At the same time, the scientific community continued its research, giving free access to the source code.
Source code is the human-readable version of a computer program. It is written in a language (or several languages) known as "programming", which describes in words and formulas the precise operation of a software program. This code is not directly intelligible to a machine. It must be translated...
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Bibliography
Éditions TI Dans les Techniques de l'Ingénieur Base documentaire Technologies logicielles. System architectures
Regulations
Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of May 22, 2001 on the harmonization of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society, known as "EUCD" (OJ L. 167 of June 22, 2001, pp. 10-19).
Law no. 2006-961 of August 1 2006 on copyright and related rights in the information society, known as the "DADVSI law" (JO no. 178...
Websites
Open source : http://www.linux-france.org/article/these/the_osd/fr-the_open_source_definition_monoblock.html
Comparing GPLv2 and GPLv3 : http://groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story≥20060118155841115
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