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open sourced

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

Meaning of open source

Noun

open source (uncountable)

  1. The practice of providing open-source code for a product.
    • OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.2025 April 1, Thomas Claburn, “Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it”, in The Register
  2. Open-source software in general.
    • His contributions to open source are numerous.
  3. Information that is in the public domain and available to everybody.

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 slather
  2. open someone's eyes
  3. open sores
  4. Open Sound Control
  5. open source
  6. open sourced
  7. open sourceror
  8. open sourcerors
  9. open sources
  10. open sourcing
  11. open space

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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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