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Open Source Software

The practice of making software source code openly available for use and modification.

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Jan 11, 2026
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Is f Droid safe and useful

F‑Droid is a community-run, open‑source Android app repository that emphasizes transparency and minimal tracking, and many of its apps are built from source and flagged for “anti‑features” like tracki...

Jan 22, 2026

What legal and security criteria does the Digital Scotland Service Standard use to decide whether a codebase can be open-sourced?

The Digital Scotland Service Standard () promotes making “all new source code open and reusable” and requires publication under appropriate licences or a convincing justification for exceptions , whil...

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