• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    ‘Open Source’ is a term, that means, that the Source code is accessible, but tells you nothing about the liberties that the license grants.

    No it isn’t. “Open Source” is a term coined by the Open Source Initiative, and they control its definition. Every license that counts as “Open Source” according to OSI also counts as Free Software according to the Free Software Foundation.

    You’re getting it confused with bullshit like “shared source” or “source available,” which are propagandistic terms designed to confuse people about proprietary software being freer than it actually is.