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authorBoud Roukema <boud@cosmo.torun.pl>2020-04-19 17:52:41 +0200
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Principles - P7 FOSS
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\item \label{principle:freesoftware}\textbf{Free and open source software:}
Technically, reproducibility (defined in \ref{definition:reproduction}) is possible with non-free or non-open-source software (a black box).
- This principle is thus necessary to complement the definition of reproducibility and has many advantages which are critical to the sciences and to industry:
- 1) The lineage, and its optimization, can be traced down to the internal algorithm in the software's source.
- 2) A free software package that may not execute on a particular piece hardware can be modified to work on it.
- 3) A non-free software project typically cannot be distributed by others, making the whole community reliant only on the owner's server (even if the proprietary software does not ask for payments).
+ This principle is thus necessary to characterize the many advantages that are critical to the sciences and to industry:
+ 1) The lineage, and its optimization, can be traced to the internal algorithm in the software's source.
+ 2) A free-software package that does not execute on particular hardware can be modified to work on it.
+ 3) A non-free software project typically cannot be distributed by others, making the whole community reliant on the owner's server (even if the owner does not ask for payments).
\emph{Comparison with existing:} The existing solutions listed above are all free software.
- There are non-free solutions, but we do not consider them here because of this principle.
+ Based on this principle, we do not consider non-free solutions here.
\end{enumerate}