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open-sourcing

open-sourcing is the present participle and gerund 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-sourcing

What is open-sourcing the present participle and gerund of?
Open-sourcing is the present participle and gerund of open-source.

Words near open-sourcing in the dictionary

  1. open-sides
  2. open-source
  3. open-sourced
  4. open-sourceness
  5. open-sources
  6. open-sourcing
  7. open-textured
  8. open-toed
  9. open-top
  10. open-top bus
  11. open-top buses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: open-sourcing (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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