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open sauce

Open source. Used in Swedish as Open sås, which have a similar sounding as sauce.
Sourcesense, a European sauce consultancy has signed with proprietary software maker Microsoft to make open sauce software for Office.(from the Inquirer)
by Sven Svensson March 28, 2008
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Open-sauce

A portmanteau of open-source and sauce. Open-sauce is just slang for open-source, meaning you and anyone else can contribute to the project. Anything that's truly open-sauce is also free, Which is called FOSS (or free open source software).
Person 1: "Can I tweak this linux distro?"
Person 2: "Hell yeah brother, it's open-sauce"
by SCPlayz7000 March 17, 2026
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Opensauce

Any type of sauce that is free of propitiatory ingredients and procedures. In order for a sauce to be deemed as opensauce, he 'sauce code' must be freely available under a GPLv3 licence for all to see.
Person One: Hello; welcome to Burger King, how can I help you?
Person Two: Hey, could I please get a whopper with cheese, without pickle, onion or tomato?
Person One: Sure, that'll be five dollars.
Person Two: Could I please have that with ketchup that conforms to opensauce standards?
Person One: Sure that'll be three dollars. I should note that you'll have to build it yourself, and Burger King is not responsible for anything you do. Oh, and it tastes like cow shit.
by manipulate July 11, 2010
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