Open source

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This is the springboard for the mission on open source. Open source is a legal and cultural concept pertaining to the freedom to share and modify computer programs by mandating the accessibility of the constituent source code. For this mission's purposes, it also includes the related but distinct concepts of free software and monastic software. Articles pertaining to this mission will carry the mission banner mission/open source. It is part of the broader mission on software sociology.