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open-source software
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open-source software

Software that anyone is free to use and redistribute in its current state with a permissive licence giving a libre access to its original source code (but not necessarily to modify it)

EntityQ1130645

Also known as open source software · OSS

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48 statements · 21% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

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  • opensource
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ACM Classification Code (2012)
  • 10003597
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30 identifiers linking open-source software across the web's reference databases