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Old 15-Apr-2008, 10:51
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What does OSS and non-OSS mean?
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Old 15-Apr-2008, 12:18
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OSS are packages that are under the gpl license, non-OSS are packages with other license types that are proprietary or conflict with the GPL.
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Old 15-Apr-2008, 13:06
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Open Source Software.
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Old 15-Apr-2008, 17:36
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OSS are packages that are under the gpl license, non-OSS are packages with other license types that are proprietary or conflict with the GPL.
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Actually GPL is not the only OSS license. Any license that is OSS is well, OSS. E.g. Apache license.
 

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