i suspect the academic lab's definition of open source is more "loosey goosey", i.e., "is the technique published in a paper/poster and can it be reimplemented

i suspect the academic lab's definition of open source is more "loosey goosey", i.e., "is the technique published in a paper/poster and can it be reimplemented by our grad students/postdocs?" If so...Open Source(tm)!