Yes, it's fairly "wink, wink". The GP selectively quoted a part of their FAQ answering this. Here is the full answer: > Strictly speaking it is “source-avail

Yes, it's fairly "wink, wink". The GP selectively quoted a part of their FAQ answering this. Here is the full answer: > Strictly speaking it is “source-available.” Many people use the phrase “open source” in a loose sense to mean that you can freely download, modify, and redistribute the code, and those things are all true of the code under the Confluent Community License. However, in the strictest sense “open source” means a license approved by the Open Source Initiative (“OSI”) which meets a particular set of criteria. The Confluent Community License is not approved by the OSI and likely would not be as it excludes the use case of creating a SaaS offering of the code. Because of this, we will not refer to the Confluent Community License or any code released under it as open source.