Fair Source: A New Software Licensing Model
Open Source Software (OSS) emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a counterbalance to commercial software. From the beginning, OSS was based on the principles of transparency, cooperation, and sharing in software development; Richard Stallman launched the GNU Project in 1983, and the first General Public License (GPL) was released in 1989, leading to rapid advancements in OSS development.