source-available
adjEtymology First attested in the early 2010s.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Software 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.2022, Catherine M. Ricardo, Susan Urban, Karen Davis, chapter 14, in Databases Illuminated, 4th edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 546:
- 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.2022 September 8, Paul Kunert, quoting Jonas Bonér, “Open source biz sick of FOSS community exploitation overhauls software rights”, in The Register: