Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

source-available

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.91 in modern English

Syllables: source-avail-able
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Whose source code can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but which itself is not necessarily open-source.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

First attested in the early 2010s.

Origin

First known use: First attested in the early 2010s

Questions

What does source-available mean?: Whose source code can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but which itself is not necessarily open-source.
Where does source-available come from?: First known use: First attested in the early 2010s.

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