What is open source software?
An open source software is a software whose source code can be consulted. This makes it possible to know (for an insider of course) if the code is clean and ethical or if it contains flaws or retrieves data from its users.
However, this does not give you the freedom to use the code yourself.
It’s like buying a cake and being able to read the ingredients to see if you’re allergic to any of them. You know what’s in the biscuit, but you don’t know the recipe and you’re not necessarily allowed to replicate it.
What is free software?
Free (libre) software gives you the freedom to use software for any purpose: to study how it works from the source code and to copy, redistribute and modify it.
If we take the analogy of a cake, it allows us to know the recipe of the cake and thus to be able to reproduce it, sell it or change an ingredient but also reproduce this new version and sell it.
What is free and open source software?
As you will have understood, open source software does not mean that you have the freedom to use the source code.
Free software often implies that its source code is available. However, in some cases, the source code can be released under the condition that the product is purchased.
Free software does not mean free
“Free software” does not mean “non-commercial software”. On the contrary, a free program must be usable, developable and distributable in a commercial context. This rule is of paramount importance. Without it, free software could not achieve its goal.
The most famous free softwares
The most famous free software is probably Wikipedia. But you’ve probably heard of these too:
- Linux (GNU) - Free operating system that can replace Windows or MacOS
- Libre Office - An office suite that can replace Microsoft Office
- Firefox - Web browser that can replace Google Chrome, Safari or Microsoft Edge
- GIMP - Photo editing software that can replace Adobe Photoshop
We hope to add Pristy to this list one day!
License
Free does not mean copyright free. There are different free software licenses.
You can find a complete list on the GNU website.
Pristy’s code
Pristy is getting a makeover: we are developing three interfaces, one of which will eventually replace Alfresco App Content.
The code (AGPL) is available on gitlab.com/pristy-oss, don’t hesitate to participate to the development of Pristy!
Software used by Pristy, license, and source code
Lists of software used by Pristy and Jeci.
Transparency point: as you can read on the About us page, Pristy is developed by Jeci a small company with a small team. We haven’t had time to release all the source codes yet, but we are working on it. Rather than not talking about it or posting it we prefer to be transparent. In the meantime, you can request the missing source codes by email. Come back regularly as we update this list frequently.
Jeci / Pristy Solution
Software name | Link to the source code | Licence |
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Alfresco Collabora Online | https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/alfresco-collabora-online | MPL-2.0 License |
Stats Alfresco on Database | https://github.com/jecicorp/stats-alfresco-on-database | Apache-2.0 |
Object Storage Connectors for Alfresco | https://github.com/jecicorp/alfresco-object-storage-connectors | LPGLv3 |
Alfresco Kafka Integration | https://github.com/jecicorp/alfresco-kafka | To be confirmed |
Alfresco Kafka OCR | On demande at info@jeci.fr | LPGLv3 |
Extension Send Mail | https://github.com/jecicorp/send-mail) | LPGLv3 |
Pristy User Documentation | https://github.com/jecicorp/pristy-documentation | GNU Free Documentation License |
Pristy - Authentication HMac | On demande at info@jeci.fr | LPGLv3 |
Pristy – Create User Cloud | https://github.com/jecicorp/create-user-cloud | LPGLv3 |
Alfresco EML to PDF Transformer Engine | On demande at info@jeci.fr | LPGLv3 |
Alfresco Transformer from Dxf to PDF | On demande at info@jeci.fr | LPGLv3 |
Alfresco Community Solution
Collabora Online Solution
Software name | Link to the source code | Licence |
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Collabora Online | https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online | Apache-2.0 |
Alfresco Collabora Online | https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/alfresco-collabora-online | MPL-2.0 License |
Other softwares used by Pristy
Other softawares used by Jeci (non-exhaustive)
Software name | Link to the source code | Licence |
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Jbake | https://github.com/jbake-org/jbake | MIT License |
Jitsi Meet | https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet | Apache-2.0 |
Podman | ||
Taiga | ||
CodiMD | ||
Dolibarr | ||
Element | ||
Atom | ||
Eclipse | ||
Firefox | ||
Thunderbird | ||
… |
Definitions :
- Free (libre) Softaware :
- Open Source Software :
- Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) :
- FLOSS / FOSS :
- FLOSS and FOSS by Richard Stallman - GNU