open source

See also: opensource and open-source

English

Etymology

open +‎ source. For software coined by Christine Peterson in 1998 as an umbrella term to encompass existing concepts such as free software, freedomware, and sourceware.

Noun

open source (uncountable)

1. (software) The practice of providing open-source code for a product.
2. (software) Open-source software in general.

   His contributions to open source are numerous.

3. (espionage) Information that is in the public domain and available to everybody.

Related terms

• open-source
• OSINT (“open-source intelligence”)

Translations

practice

• Catalan: codi obert m, codi font obert m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 開源／开源 (zh) (kāiyuán) (Chinese mainland), 開放原始碼／开放原始码 (kāifàngyuánshǐmǎ) (Taiwan)

• Finnish: avoin lähdekoodi (fi)
• German: Open Source (de) f
• Greek: ανοικτός κώδικας m (anoiktós kódikas)
• Irish: foinse oscailte f
• Italian: codice aperto m, open source (it) m or f
• Japanese: オープンソース (ja) (ōpun sōsu)
• Portuguese: código aberto m
• Sicilian: còdici raputu m, open source m or f
• Spanish: código abierto m
• Swedish: öppen källkod (sv) c, open source (sv)
• Tamil: திறமூலம் (ta) (tiṟamūlam)
• Thai: โอเพนซอร์ส

software

• Catalan: codi obert m, codi font obert m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 開源軟件／开源软件 (kāiyuán ruǎnjiàn) (Chinese mainland), 開放原始碼軟體／开放原始码软体 (kāifàngyuánshǐmǎ ruǎntǐ) (Taiwan)

• Finnish: avoin lähdekoodi (fi)
• French: libre (fr) m or f
• German: Open-Source-Software f
• Greek: ανοικτός κώδικας m (anoiktós kódikas), ανοικτός πηγαίος κώδικας m (anoiktós pigaíos kódikas)
• Italian: codice aperto m, open source (it) m or f
• Japanese: オープンソースソフトウェア (ōpun sōsu sofutowhea)
• Portuguese: código aberto m
• Romanian: software de sursă deschisă, software de open-source
• Sicilian: còdici raputu m, open source m or f
• Thai: โอเพนซอร์ส
• Turkish: açık kaynak yazılım
• Vietnamese: phần mềm nguồn mở

See also

• open core

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of open-source