That's not true for code which gets pre-compiled. For interpreted (or JIT-compiled) code, then yes, by definition, the source needs to be distributed to end us

That's not true for code which gets pre-compiled. For interpreted (or JIT-compiled) code, then yes, by definition, the source needs to be distributed to end users in order to be executed. For compiled code, only the resultant binary needs to be shared after compiling the source.