Creative Commons
Creative Commons, also known as CC, began in 2003 as non-profit organisation which provided copyright, allowing creators to make their work available on more freely. Creative Common licences allow everyone and anyone to copy a piece of work as long as they give credit to the creator. However, the creator can apply conditions to their works such as non-commercial, no derivatives or shareAlike. This notion that we can rest our copyrighted content in the "interests of sharing" comes from the Free Software Foundation.
Free/Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS)
Created in 1981 by Richard M. Stallman, the Free Software Foundation created a free operating system fully made from free software known as GNU. The was before propriety software came about including windows, Microsoft office, internet explorer, etc.
Source Code- a source code is instructions written in programming format that tell a computer to do specific things and this is how computer software works. There are Four Freedoms for Free Software which is a legal document controlling what you can and can't do with Free Software:
Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program, for any purpose.
Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs.
Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbour.
Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
Open Source is an attempt to push Free Software into the business world. The Open Source source code is openly available and anyone is able to view it or use it. Propriety software, as mentioned before, requires the source code to remain confidential with development goals set by the software company
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