symbols, images and names which fall in the category of creative works.
Patents, trademarks and copyright are what protects intellectual property in law, and this allows people to benefit in recognition or financially from the creations.
Holding access to only the source code does not imply that the code is open source. The question is what a person is capable of doing with the code. There are a few factors that are offered by the Open Source Initiative that includes free redistribution which must provide source code to make it available. The second factor is that the programme is required to include the source code or either make sure that it is available. This mainly what open source code is about without the source code there would be no benefits to having an open source. The third factor is to allow modifications and derived works. The integrity of the author’s code must be maintained. The other factors link together which suggest to not discriminate against persons or groups and do not discriminate against fields of endeavour.
Copyright is the primary type of intellectual property; it enables the copyright owner to protect his or her work against other people from trying to copy their work or claim other people’s work as theirs.
On the other hand, Copyleft is a licence that tries to gain the public the freedom to change, extend and redistribute creative work while it remains free.
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