sourceware

A precursor of open source software.

Noun

  1. A precursor of open source software.
    • And last of the “open software”, a rarer implementation is sourceware. A variation of freedomware, sourceware offers “open source” code with “closed (proprietary) standards”. - 2005, Sys Admin: The Journal for UNIX...
    • Because McVoy was trying to avoid recourse to the “customer solution” of NT, that left the programmers' solution: free software, or “sourceware,” as he termed it. - 2009, Glyn Moody, Rebel Code: Linux and the Open...
    • And we said, “We're all going to agree on one name, and we're all going to start using it.” We voted on “sourceware” versus “open source,” and “open source” won. We had the press conference at five, and the rest is...

    Coordinate Terms: freedomware

Origin

From source + -ware.