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by mepian 1095 days ago
"Source-available" is already the established term for this kind of software, not sure what you are talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
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Does that term really apply to this? You can modify and distribute the source. The only thing you can't do is sell it.
Yes, because the OSI doesn’t recognize it as such.
I don't recognize the OSI as any authority to define words.
The OSI once applied to the USPTO for a trademark on "open source" and was denied [1].

[1] https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p...

This is fine, but you don't get to decide what people mean when they say "open source", and usually they mean this definition.
> Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software

"Free and open source (FOSS)" is another established term, for the opposite, so I'm not sure this proves anything.
It's not the opposite. Source-available is a requirement of FLOSS (or FOSS).

FOSS is "source-available" + other guarantees.