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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Also, you need to receive a license to use the code, so it cannot be said to be open-source at all.
It is proprietary, encumbered software with publicly available
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I don't believe open source means no license. For example, if you download Firefox it still has a license. In the case of Firefox, the license says that if you make any derivatives those derivatives must be Free and Open Source.
Which also leads to the fact that open sources does not mean Free and Open Source. It just means that the source code is available. You could have proprietary software that cost money to buy and it could still be open source.
Anyway, the license just spells out the terms of use and those terms can be quite non-restrictive or can be extremely restrictive.