Open-source

Alternative forms

open source

Full definition of open-source

Adjective

open-source

(computing) Of, or relating to a product which is licensed to permit modifications and redistribution of its source code, as per The Open Source Definition.Linux is an open-source operating system

Antonyms

closed-source

Verb

(transitive) To release the source code of.

2005, David Brickner, Test Driving Linux: From Windows to Linux in 60 SecondsThe 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.