Concept · Technical basics
Open source
Also called: open-source, open source software, OSS, open-source license, free software
Software whose code is published for anyone to read, use and build on, under a license that sets the rules for doing so.
For example: Instead of writing a calendar from scratch, a developer uses an open-source calendar component that thousands of other projects already rely on.
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