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source-available

source-available adjective: whose source code can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but which itself is not necessarily open-source.

Adjective

source-available (not comparable)

  1. Whose source code can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but which itself is not necessarily open-source.
    • MongoDB is licensed as a source-available, distributed, document database and a community edition can be freely downloaded for multiple operating systems. It is well-suited to large-scale, database-driven application development.2022, Catherine M. Ricardo, Susan Urban, Karen Davis, chapter 14, in Databases Illuminated, 4th edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 546
    • The BSL is a ‘Source Available’ license that freely allows using the code for development and other non-production work such as testing. Production use of the software requires a commercial license from Lightbend.2022 September 8, Paul Kunert, quoting Jonas Bonér, “Open source biz sick of FOSS community exploitation overhauls software rights”, in The Register

Origin of source-available

First attested in the early 2010s.

Questions about source-available

What does source-available mean?
Source-available means whose source code can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but which itself is not necessarily open-source.
What part of speech is source-available?
Source-available is an adjective.

Words near source-available in the dictionary

  1. source languages
  2. source material
  3. source routing
  4. source text
  5. source texts
  6. source-available
  7. sourceable
  8. sourcebook
  9. sourcebooks
  10. sourcecode
  11. sourced

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