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open-sourced

open-sourced is the simple past and past participle of open-source.

Meaning of open-source

Verb

open-source (third-person singular simple present open-sources, present participle open-sourcing, simple past and past participle open-sourced)

  1. (transitive) To release the source code of, so as to permit modification and redistribution.
    • The 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.2005, David Brickner, Test Driving Linux: From Windows to Linux in 60 Seconds

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Questions about open-sourced

What is open-sourced the simple past and past participle of?
Open-sourced is the simple past and past participle of open-source.

Words near open-sourced in the dictionary

  1. open-shopper
  2. open-shoppers
  3. open-side
  4. open-sides
  5. open-source
  6. open-sourced
  7. open-sourceness
  8. open-sources
  9. open-sourcing
  10. open-textured
  11. open-toed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: open-sourced (page history and authors); open-source (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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