open-source
Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
pertaining to or denoting a product or system whose origins, formula, design, etc., are freely accessible to the public.
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How to use open-source in a sentence
Moreover, open source design adds an even more complicated spin on this debate.
When any design is created, shared and improved freely amongst all, it is open source.
Consequently, there were soon scores of wiki sites as well as open-source improvements to his software.
Eliot focuses on the weapons used in the conflict in Syria, and open source investigations tools and techniques.
MH17 Missile Can't Hide From These Internet Sleuths | Eliot Higgins | August 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNor did Microsoft transform its proprietary operating system into open-source code.
Tesla’s Radical Patent Move is a Plot to Take Over the Road | Daniel Gross | June 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Art draws its inspirations from these profound sources, as well as from the ever open source of nature.
Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good | Victor Cousin
British Dictionary definitions for open source
intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is made freely available to the general public by its creators
(as modifier): open source software Compare closed source
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Scientific definitions for open-source
Relating to source code that is available to the public without charge. Open-source code is often enhanced, improved, and adapted for specific purposes by interested programmers, with the revised versions of the code are made available to the public. For example, most of the code in the Linux operating system is open-source.
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