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Open Source

ཁ་ཕྱེས་ཁུངས་མྱུར་ཆས།

Tibetan source — Shorter community wording is also ཁུངས་འབྱེད།

开源

Open Source · ཁ་ཕྱེས་ཁུངས་མྱུར་ཆས། · 开源 · OH-pen sors · FOSS · free and open source software · Open Source · licensing · community · softwareOpen SourceFOSS free and open source software

/OH-pen sors/

Also known as: FOSS, free and open source software

Last updated April 8, 2026

Definition

Open source software provides source code under licenses that allow inspection, modification, and redistribution according to license terms.

Real-World Example

Linux, Firefox, and many programming languages are developed as open source projects with public repositories.

References

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