If your goal is to ever talk to people about open source software, that’s going to create a lot of unnecessary confusion.
I guess that my definition of open source is not that uncommon, given that the terms “free software” and “libre software” exist and are rather well-established by this point.
Which is one of the possible definitions. Mine is “you can see the code”. Everything else falls into “free software”.
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I guess that my definition of open source is not that uncommon, given that the terms “free software” and “libre software” exist and are rather well-established by this point.
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@tux0r You are right that this mistaken definition is quite common. Smart person would try to correct the mistake, not defend it.
The term that is often used for that is “source available”. Good example of other software in this category would be what, Unreal Engine?