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by numerobis 2939 days ago
There seems to be a lot of confusion here about what open source means. In practical terms, open source and free software imply the same freedoms for the users, including the rights to change and redistribute the source code.

The more common terminology for proprietary software whose source is available is source-available.

See the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software#Open-sour...