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Yeah but their sentence is correct:
The project is not open source (in terms of FOSS) but the source is open.
The whole license stuff is complicated enough, why are we using confusing technical terms?
Open source should be open source and free and modifyable source should be sth else
The source is literally not "open". It doesn't make sense to say that without referring to open source.
Saying the source is available to see, that makes sense though.
There have always been multiple definitions of "open source". That's why it's always best to specify. If you mean FOSS, say FOSS. Don't use an ambiguous term like "open source".
Then everyone should stop using "open source" or there's going to be arguments over what counts as open source every single time.
Well luckily there's no arguments necessary, as we have the definition by the OSI. I actually rarely see any discussion about that, and when I do it's mostly ill-informed comment sections.
Oh I agree completely. Open means it's open to access, modification, and redistribution. Not closed to two of those three.