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The source is openly accessible, openly developed, and you can fork it if you don’t like it. It’s definitely open source.

• dragonwriter 6y ago
  https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd “6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.” vs. https://github.com/micro/micro/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/micro/micro/blob/master/LICENSE “## Noncompete Any purpose is a permitted purpose, except for providing any product that competes with the software or any product the licensor or any of its affiliates provides using the software. ## Competition Goods and services compete even when they provide functionality through different kinds of interfaces or for different technical platforms. Applications can compete with services, libraries with plugins, frameworks with development tools, and so on, even if they’re written in different programming languages or for different computer architectures. Goods and services compete even when provided free of charge. If you market a product as a practical substitute for the software or another product, it definitely competes. ## New Products If you are using the software to provide a product that does not compete, but the licensor or any of its affiliates brings your product into competition by providing a new version of the software or another product using the software, you may continue using versions of the software available under these terms beforehand to provide your competing product, but not any later versions. ## Discontinued Products You may begin using the software to compete with a product or service that the licensor or any of its affiliates has stopped providing, unless the licensor includes a plain-text line beginning with `Licensor Line of Business:` with the software that mentions that line of business. Licensor Line of Business: M3O (https://m3o.com https://m3o.com) ## Sales of Business If the licensor or any of its affiliates sells a line of business developing the software or using the software to provide a product, the buyer can also enforce [Noncompete](#noncompete) for that product.”
  • zapita 6y ago
    I am aware of the OSI definition of open-source. However that is only one definition. Although it is a popular one, it is neither authoritative nor ubiquitous. My definition is just as valid as theirs, and it has never confused anybody outside of pedantic debates like this one.
• mzi 6y ago
  According to the author of the license[0], it is not open source. [0]: https://polyformproject.org/what-is-polyform/ https://polyformproject.org/what-is-polyform/