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[–] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Heh your "precise" statement is literally what I said:

Open source does literally mean [source code can be viewed]...[it's not the case that] source code being viewable means it's open source

Cheers.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    What you're talking about is "source-available." I.e. being able to read source code but not having licensing rights to redistribute or make changes.

    "Open-source" means that being able to modify and distribute changes is built into the license of the code.

    For example, Minecraft Java is source-available in that decompiling Java bytecode is trivial - enough so that tools exist which can easily generate a source code dump. However, actually distributing that source code dump is technically illegal and falls under piracy, so it isn't open source.

    Edit: I didn't see your edit, this comment is kind of pointless, oh well

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