Tag: open source

The web is built on collaborative technology, both free and open source, and the world is better for it.

“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”.
GNU Free Software Definition

The term Open Source is generally used to refers to something whose design is publicly accessible, and is modifiable by anyone.

Open Licensing

As a proponent and user of open software and content, I publish selected code and/or site content under an open licence.

According to Open Defintion:

“A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”

If a specific code library or content on this site is available under an open license, it will be stated clearly on the page.

Attribution requested

I encourage you to use and/or share the open licensed content or code. For all uses of my content or code, I ask you to attribute credit to me, Peter Hebert, linking to this site.

Example attribution code:

Credit: <a href="https://peterhebert.com/">Peter Hebert</a>

phSite CMS was an open source content management system that I developed and used for this website from about 2010-2013. The web application is written in PHP, based on the CodeIgniter PHP framework. Some of its main features are:

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