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by MrJohz 682 days ago
This is untrue. Both "free" and "open" licenses do the same thing in this context: they are legal documents that tell you what different parties are able to do with the code, but none of the licenses mandate how you run your project: whether you must accept contributions from others, whether you provide a bug tracker, or anything else like that.

Hell, you could have a GPL project that is developed entirely behind closed doors, as long as you always give users a copy of the source code when you release a new version.