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by nailer 1043 days ago
> My problem is, there's no consensus among HN readers about what the term means.

Open Source is defined here, by the people that invented the term: https://opensource.org/osd/

The vast majority of HN readers would support this over any other definition.

Anything that provides access to source but doesn't allow forks, commercial use, competition, removal of advertising, etc is 100% not open source.