open source

See also: opensource and open-source

English

Alternative forms

• open-source (verb or adjective)

Etymology

open +‎ source

Coined by Christine Peterson February 3, 1998.

Noun

open source (uncountable)

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

   His contributions to open source are numerous.

Related terms

• open-source

Translations

practice

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

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

• Finnish: avoin lähdekoodi (fi)
• German: offene (de) Quelle (de) f or Quelloffenheit f
• Greek: ανοικτός κώδικας m (anoiktós kódikas)
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• Irish: foinse oscailte f
• Japanese: オープンソース (ja) (ōpun sōsu)
• Portuguese: código aberto 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), 开源软件 (kāiyuán ruǎnjiàn) (Chinese mainland), 開放原始碼軟體／开放原始码软体, 开放原始码软体 (kāifàngyuánshǐmǎ ruǎntǐ) (Taiwan)

• Finnish: avoin lähdekoodi (fi)
• French: libre (fr) m or f
• German: offene (de) Quelle (de) f or Quelloffenheit f
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• Greek: ανοικτός κώδικας m (anoiktós kódikas), ανοικτός πηγαίος κώδικας m (anoiktós pigaíos kódikas)
• 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
• Thai: โอเพนซอร์ส
• Turkish: açık kaynak yazılım
• Vietnamese: phần mềm nguồn mở

Verb

1. Alternative form of open-source

Translations

the practice of providing open source code for a product

• Finnish: avata lähdekoodi
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• German: quelloffen (de) [for example: „quelloffene Hardware (de)“ or „quelloffener Film (de)“]

open-source software in general

• Finnish: avata lähdekoodi
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• German: quelloffen (de) [for example: „quelloffene Software (de)“ or „quelloffene Anwendung (de)“]