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by Spivak 2859 days ago
Forbidding commercial use doesn't make something closed source but it does make it proprietary. The compliment of Open Source isn't closed source.
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Can you give an example of something that's neither open source nor closed source, or of something that's both open source and closed source?
Gitlab EE is one.

Not closed source since the source is public and freely given [1]. Not open source because the license [2] forbids use based on field of endeavor which is required in the OSD [3].

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee [2] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/master/LICENSE [3] https://opensource.org/osd-annotated

Not that Wikipedia is a source of truth but it does corroborate that at least some other people agree with this analysis [4].

[4] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_source

Edit:

As for the other direction, you can't have software be Open Source and closed source simultaneously since being Open Source requires the source to be available. Or in symbols.

Free Software ⊆ Open Source ⊆ source-available

closed source ∪ source-available = 𝕌

closed source ∩ source-available = ∅

Commons Clause is neither open source nor closed source; it is proprietary. Something cannot be both open source and closed source.