FOSS Acronym for Free or open-source software. Software, like Joomla, that is available to use, copy, study, and change in any way without charge. FOSS software typically uses a special software license, such as GPL, that requires any derivative works to also be free.
Options (Parameters) Options (also known as parameters) are settings used to customise modules, components, plug-ins and templates. The core extensions in Joomla offer many options that the site administrator can set to change the behavior of the site without requiring any programming knowledge.
View (MVC) One of the elements of the model-view-controller design pattern used for Joomla core components. The view is responsible for generating output sent to the browser by the component. The base API class we use for views is called JView.
