> - anyone can contribute to writing or editing! e.g. "source code"/content of the book is hosted in a Git instance; Open source doesn't mean open to contribut

> - anyone can contribute to writing or editing! e.g. "source code"/content of the book is hosted in a Git instance; Open source doesn't mean open to contributions! For example, SQLite is open-source, but is not open to contributions: https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html > SQLite is open-source, meaning that you can make as many copies of it as you want and do whatever you want with those copies, without limitation. But SQLite is not open-contribution. There's also an article by Rich Harris that explain the difference between open source and open contribution: https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba9519972d9 https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95.... An extract: > Open source is a licensing and delivery mechanism, period. It means you get the source for software and the right to use and modify it. All social impositions associated with it, including the idea of 'community-driven-development' are part of a recently-invented mythology with little basis in how things actually work, a mythology that embodies, cult-like, both a lack of support for diversity in the ways things can work and a pervasive sense of communal entitlement.