The open source software movement at large does not appreciate companies trying to water down the meaning of "open source" to mean the same thing as "source ava

The open source software movement at large does not appreciate companies trying to water down the meaning of "open source" to mean the same thing as "source available" for software, because the term "open source" guarantees users additional rights. The Open Source Initiative is one of many groups that define open source software as including the right to not only view the source code but also to modify and redistribute it. Others include Merriam-Webster Dictionary: > of software : having the source code freely available for possible modification and redistribution https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open-source https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open-source New Oxford American Dictionary: > denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/web-development/9781782168751/14/ch14lvl1sec101/what-is-open-source https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/web-development/97817... And the authors of all of the academic literature cited in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software