Meaning things is not the problem. The issue is word overloading. “Free software” curtails certain freedoms of downstream users. “Open source” means more than

Meaning things is not the problem. The issue is word overloading. “Free software” curtails certain freedoms of downstream users. “Open source” means more than just the source being open to view. And this is fine! But people have gotten so used to their definitions they forget to apply the same criteria to “fair source”.