Seeopen source.
open-source (notcomparable)
- (software) Of or relating to software where thesource code is freely available andlicensed in a manner that permits modification and redistribution.
Linux is anopen-source operating system.
2014, Jon Galloway, Brad Wilson, K. Scott Allen, David Matson,Professional ASP.NET MVC 5, John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN,page10:ASP.NET MVC has been under anopen-source license since the initial release, but it was justopen-source code instead of a fullopen-source project.
- (by extension)Describing anyproduct whosecomposition or method ofmanufacturing ispublicknowledge and notproprietary.
open-source cola
- (espionage) Relying on publicly available information (open sources).
2023 December 16,Eliot Higgins, “Moment of truth”, inFT 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 theopen-source investigative group Bellingcat.
open-source (third-person singular simple presentopen-sources,present participleopen-sourcing,simple past and past participleopen-sourced)
- (transitive, computing) To release thesource code of, so as to permit modification and redistribution.
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 theyopen-sourced as much of it as they could.
