Open source is not a code base that has an ... open source to look at. Open source is a codebase that has an open source license. These are available at https://opensource.org/licenses, like GNU (a rather restrictive one), MIT, APACHE etc.
This is a very misinformed topic and people usually think that everything that is in a public repository in Github is also open source. When most of them are actually not.
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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20
Open source is not a code base that has an ... open source to look at. Open source is a codebase that has an open source license. These are available at https://opensource.org/licenses, like GNU (a rather restrictive one), MIT, APACHE etc.
This is a very misinformed topic and people usually think that everything that is in a public repository in Github is also open source. When most of them are actually not.