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オープンソース — meaning in English

ōpunsōsu

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English meaning

  • open source adjective Of software: released with its underlying code made publicly available under a licence that lets anyone read it, use it, change it and share their changed version.

Senses

オープンソース is used for these senses in English:

  • open source (software) The practice of providing open-source code for a product.

open source — full definition

  1. adjective Of software: released with its underlying code made publicly available under a licence that lets anyone read it, use it, change it and share their changed version.
  2. noun The wider practice and community of developing software in the open, with contributions accepted from people outside the original team.
  3. adjective More generally, of designs, hardware, data or research: published so that others may freely inspect, reuse and modify it.

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