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by mschuster91 1627 days ago
You can't legally retract opening up software source code under most if not all popular open source licenses.
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It is indeed all, even if you ignore the "popular" qualifier. If a license could be unilaterally revoked, it would fail to meet the Open Source Definition for that reason.
open source =/= free software.

That's the first mistake you are making.

The differences between the two are extremely minimal, basically only relating to patent rights relating to the software. Go read https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html - the FSF's Free Software definition, and https://opensource.org/osd - the Open Source Definition (both by the respective parties that coined the terms and maintain them to this day) and see what the actual differences are. They're not many.
While they are indeed sightly different, I fail to see how the differences are at all relevant in this context.