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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)
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open-source software

Summary

open-source software ranks in the top 0.22% of software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,603 views/month, #9 of 4,153).[1]

Key Facts

  • open-source software is a type of source-available software[2].
  • open-source software is a type of freely redistributable software[3].
  • open-source software is a type of open content[4].
  • open-source software is part of open knowledge[5].
  • open-source software's said to be the same as is recorded as free software[6].
  • open-source software's said to be the same as is recorded as free and open-source software[7].
  • open-source software is the opposite of proprietary software[8].
  • open-source software's described by source is recorded as Open Science Thesaurus[9].
  • open-source software's has characteristic is recorded as free license[10].
  • open-source software's different from is recorded as open source[11].
  • open-source software's different from is recorded as free software[12].
  • open-source software's different from is recorded as OSI-approved license[13].
  • open-source software's different from is recorded as free and open-source software[14].
  • open-source software's different from is recorded as source-available software[15].
  • open-source software's ACM Classification Code is recorded as 10003597[16].
  • open-source software's hashtag is recorded as opensource[17].
  • open-source software's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18].
  • open-source software's Stack Exchange site URL is recorded as https://opensource.stackexchange.com[19].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for open-source software include Générateur d'Articles Wikipedia à Améliorer[20], a web application[21], founded in 2019[22].

Why It Matters

open-source software ranks in the top 0.22% of software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,603 views/month, #9 of 4,153).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

It is credited with the discovery of clear[25], a standard UNIX utility or command[26]. Entities named for it include Générateur d'Articles Wikipedia à Améliorer[20], a web application[21], founded in 2019[22].

FAQs

What did open-source software discover?

open-source software is credited as discoverer of clear[25].

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  1. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0281654-otevreny-software, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259490|batch #259490]]"
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