open-source

English

Alternative forms

• open source

Adjective

open-source (not comparable)

1. (computing) Of, or relating to a product which is licensed to permit modifications and redistribution of its source code.

   Linux is an open-source operating system

Antonyms

• closed-source

Verb

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.