  Open Source Software (OSS) history is traced to initial efforts in 1971 at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab,
the initial goals of OSS around Free vs. Freedom, and its evolution and impact
on commercial and custom applications. Through OSS history, much of the
research and has been around contributors (suppliers) to OSS projects, the
commercialization, and overall success of OSS as a development process. In
conjunction with OSS growth, intellectual property issues and licensing issues
still remain. The consumers of OSS, application architects, in developing
commercial or internal applications based upon OSS should consider license risk
as they compose their applications using Component Based Software Development
(CBSD) approaches, either through source code, binary, or standard protocols
such as HTTP.
