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by cbdfghh 3469 days ago
>EE is open source

It is _not_. You cannot distribute it. That makes it not open source.

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yeah, the term I'd use is source available? anyway, I agree with the idea that "open source" is a dirty term, an attempt to subvert the free software movement. But that is a battle for another day.

Someone else put it better than I could:

> Likewise a Source Available is not necessarily Open Source, but Open Source is necessarily Source Available.

https://haacked.com/archive/2006/07/26/CodeAvailableVsOpenSo... (requires you to accept github cert because https is difficult for some reason)

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