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open sourcing

open sourcing is the present participle and gerund 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 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 source
  2. open sourced
  3. open sourceror
  4. open sourcerors
  5. open sources
  6. open sourcing
  7. open space
  8. open spaces
  9. open species
  10. open sunshine
  11. open syllable

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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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