open source
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pənˈsɔrs, -ˈsoʊrs adjective
1.
Computers. pertaining to or denoting software whose source code is available free of charge to the public to use, copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute.
2.
pertaining to or denoting a product or system whose origins, formula, design, etc., are freely accessible to the public.
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| open source | |
| —n | |
| a. intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is made freely available to the general public by its creators | |
| b. Compare closed source (as modifier): open source software | |
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Open Source
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| 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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open source
n. [common; also adj. `open-source'] Term coined in March 1998 following the Mozilla release to describe software distributed in source under licenses guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use, modify, and redistribute, the code. The intent was to be able to sell the hackers' ways of doing software to industry and the mainstream by avoid the negative connotations (to suits) of the term "free software". For discussion of the followon tactics and their consequences, see the Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org) site.
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open source definition
philosophy, legalA method and philosophy for software licensing and distribution designed to encourage use and improvement of software written by volunteers by ensuring that anyone can copy the source code and modify it freely.
The term "open source" is now more widely used than the earlier term "free software" (promoted by the Free Software Foundation) but has broadly the same meaning - free of distribution restrictions, not necessarily free of charge.
There are various open source licenses available. Programmers can choose an appropriate license to use when distributing their programs.
The Open Source Initiative promotes the Open Source Definition.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar (http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar.html). was a seminal paper describing the open source phenomenon.
Open Sources - O'Reilly book with full text online (http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/perens.html).
Articles from ZDNet (http://zdnet.com/pcmag/features/opensource/).
(1999-12-29)
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open source
social movement, begun by computer programmers, that rejects secrecy and centralized control of creative work in favour of decentralization, transparency, and unrestricted ("open") sharing of information. Source refers to the human-readable source code of computer programs, as opposed to the compiled computer programming language instructions, or object code, that run on computers but cannot be easily understood or modified by people
Learn more about open source with a free trial on Britannica.com.
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Example sentences
Portal content is constantly updated with up-to-the-minute open source information from around the world back to top.
In the end the open source does not avoid anything on the contrary it even fuels the process.
It comes with open source that allows engineers to close down or secure ports.
There are open source projects that include standard formats for the exchange of designs.
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