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source-available

adj

Etymology

First attested in the early 2010s.

Definitions

  1. Whose source code can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but which itself is not…

    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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for source-available. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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