Not really. A lot of folks, including myself, don't subscribe to the OSI's definition of open-source because it just doesn't match the common usage. Open-source takes many forms, and source available is just one example.
I personally prefer to be effective at communication, so I don't just use words to mean something different than what everyone else thinks.
And “what everyone else thinks” is mostly different from the OSI definition.
Sorry, I meant: "everyone else except 3 or 4 people on ycombinator"
> Many people think that Open Source simply means availability of the source code of a project, but that does only tell part of the whole story.
> The Open Source Initiative (OSI) provides a commonly accepted definition of what constitutes Open Source. To summarize that, in order to be constituted Open Source,
>> a work has to allow free redistribution,
>> the source code needs to be made available,
>> it must be possible to create further works based on it,
>> there must be no limitations of who may use the work or for what purpose (so something like "no commercial use" or "no military use" won't fly with Open Source),
>> the work must not require an additional license on top of the one it comes with,
>> and finally, the license must not depend on a specific distribution format, technology or presence of other works.
> So, you see, it goes way beyond "the source code is available", in fact, a whole lot more requirements are stated that must be fulfilled in order for a work to really be considered Open Source.
https://github.com/readme/guides/open-source-licensing
Also, GitHub's most starred repo is freeCodeCamp (359k stars - https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp). Linked right in the repo's README, freeCodeCamp defines open source as:
> Open Source Software is code that is publicly available for people to view, modify, and share.
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-open-source-softwa...
Terms DO have meanings whether contrarians and the argumentative want to acknowledge those meanings or not.
> Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
Citations for this sentence (many more in the full article):
- https://books.google.com/books?id=04jG7TTLujoC&pg=PA4#v=onep...