English
sourceware
From source + -ware.
Formed from source + -ware
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- ‘to straighten’
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Old French sordre ‘to rise’
Old French sors
Old French sorse ‘rise, beginning, spring, source’
Middle English sours
English source
Today it means
noun A precursor of open source software.
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Etymograph / sourceware