Editing Open-source software (section)

=== Source-available software ===
{{Main|Source-available software}}

Software can be distributed with [[source code]], which is a code that is readable.<ref name=":26">{{Cite journal |last1=Fortunato |first1=Laura |last2=Galassi |first2=Mark |date=2021-05-17 |title=The case for free and open source software in research and scholarship |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2020.0079 |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences |language=en |volume=379 |issue=2197 |doi=10.1098/rsta.2020.0079 |pmid=33775148 |bibcode=2021RSPTA.37900079F |s2cid=232387092 |issn=1364-503X}}</ref> Software is [[source-available software|source available]] when this source code is available to be seen.<ref name=":26" /> However to be source available or [[Free and open-source software|FOSS]], the source code does not need to be accessible to all, just the users of that software.<ref name=":26" /> While all FOSS software is source available because this is a requirement made by the [[The Open Source Definition|Open Source Definition]], not all source available software is FOSS.<ref name=":26" /> For example, if the software does not meet other aspects of the Open Source Definition such as permitted modification or redistribution, even if the source code is available, the software is not FOSS.<ref name=":26" />