Oct 22

As the FOSS is getting high attention from different entities in the world, just to mention the UNDP and the European Union, and because of the Technical Committees and Groups around the glob in addition to the number of researches, papers, conferences and meetings, and the different reports about FOSS, we established the Free and Open Source Software in Libyan Group (FOSSiL group) to formalize the efforts and activities that will be in Libya related to this field. We have as one of our main goals is to open the opportunities for our Computer Students within different colleges and institutes, programmers, computer engineers, and enthusiastic in Libya to benefit and to participate in developing huge software packages and exchange with engineers with high experience to improve their performance and have the best and effective way of Knowledge Transfer.
In the following sections we will present the Open Source Definition that is initiated and applied by the Open Source International. It will be followed by two sections each for one of the most commonly used Open Source Software Licenses.

Free and open source software