> If the source is available but can't be used then there is no reason for the source to be available. No one can do anything with that source. It's certainly

> If the source is available but can't be used then there is no reason for the source to be available. No one can do anything with that source. It's certainly not the equivalent of Free Software, but there would still be some things you could do. You could study the source to learn from it, to check for security issues, or to check for malware. In the FSF's terminology, you wouldn't really have any of the Four Freedoms, but you'd have a fraction of Freedom 1.