open-source

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See also: opensource and open source

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See open source.

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open-source (not comparable)

  1. (software) Of or relating to a product which is licensed to permit modifications and redistribution of its source code, as per The Open Source Definition.
    Coordinate term: source-available
    Linux is an open-source operating system.
    • 2014, Jon Galloway, Brad Wilson, K. Scott Allen, David Matson, Professional ASP.NET MVC 5, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 10:
      ASP.NET MVC has been under an open-source license since the initial release, but it was just open-source code instead of a full open-source project.
  2. (by extension) Describing any product whose composition or method of manufacturing is public knowledge and not proprietary.
    open-source cola
  3. (espionage) Relying on publicly available information (open sources).
    open-source intelligence
    • 2023 December 16, Eliot Higgins, “Moment of truth”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:
      The ramifications of disinformation spill on to the streets with tangible, often devastating real-world consequences. These processes were already under way in 2014, when I founded the open-source investigative group Bellingcat.

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open-source (third-person singular simple present open-sources, present participle open-sourcing, simple past and past participle open-sourced)

  1. (transitive) To release the source code of.
    • 2005, David Brickner, Test Driving Linux: From Windows to Linux in 60 Seconds:
      The big Unix company Sun Microsystems bought the code for StarOffice in 1999, and some time afterward they open-sourced as much of it as they could.
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