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authorScott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>2017-06-14 10:17:52 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2017-06-22 09:16:43 +0100
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ref-manual, dev-manual: Moved "Open Source Philosophy" to ref-manual.
Fixes [YOCTO #11630] The "Open Source Philosophy" section that was in the dev-manual is really conceptual reference information and has no place in the dev-manual, which is being re-written to be a "how-to" manual. I moved the section into the new "ref-development-environment.xml" chapter. No links were affected by this. (From yocto-docs rev: 0a3e65bf7a23eec6e36a3cda3c2011b70aef325b) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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7<title>The Yocto Project Open Source Development Environment</title> 7<title>The Yocto Project Open Source Development Environment</title>
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9<para>
10 This chapter helps you understand the Yocto Project as an open source development project.
11 In general, working in an open source environment is very different from working in a
12 closed, proprietary environment.
13 Additionally, the Yocto Project uses specific tools and constructs as part of its development
14 environment.
15 This chapter specifically addresses open source philosophy, using the
16 Yocto Project in a team environment, source repositories, Yocto Project
17 terms, licensing, the open source distributed version control system Git,
18 workflows, bug tracking, and how to submit changes.
19</para>
20
21<section id='open-source-philosophy'>
22 <title>Open Source Philosophy</title>
23
24 <para>
25 Open source philosophy is characterized by software development directed by peer production
26 and collaboration through an active community of developers.
27 Contrast this to the more standard centralized development models used by commercial software
28 companies where a finite set of developers produces a product for sale using a defined set
29 of procedures that ultimately result in an end product whose architecture and source material
30 are closed to the public.
31 </para>
32
33 <para>
34 Open source projects conceptually have differing concurrent agendas, approaches, and production.
35 These facets of the development process can come from anyone in the public (community) that has a
36 stake in the software project.
37 The open source environment contains new copyright, licensing, domain, and consumer issues
38 that differ from the more traditional development environment.
39 In an open source environment, the end product, source material, and documentation are
40 all available to the public at no cost.
41 </para>
42
43 <para>
44 A benchmark example of an open source project is the Linux kernel, which was initially conceived
45 and created by Finnish computer science student Linus Torvalds in 1991.
46 Conversely, a good example of a non-open source project is the
47 <trademark class='registered'>Windows</trademark> family of operating
48 systems developed by <trademark class='registered'>Microsoft</trademark> Corporation.
49 </para>
50
51 <para>
52 Wikipedia has a good historical description of the Open Source Philosophy
53 <ulink url='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source'>here</ulink>.
54 You can also find helpful information on how to participate in the Linux Community
55 <ulink url='http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/book/how-participate-linux-community'>here</ulink>.
56 </para>
57</section>
58
59<section id="usingpoky-changes-collaborate"> 9<section id="usingpoky-changes-collaborate">
60 <title>Using the Yocto Project in a Team Environment</title> 10 <title>Using the Yocto Project in a Team Environment</title>
61 11