open-source

o·pen-source

(ō′pən-sôrs′)

adj.

Open to public participation, as in the sharing of information or the development of software: an open-source operating system.

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Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

open-source - of or relating to or being computer software for which the source code is freely available computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

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