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Re:Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations t... by detaro on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @12:39PM (#13015751)
No. Call that "source available", "source access" or something, but "Open Source" is pretty much established to be defined by the OSI definition of the term: https://opensource.org/osd
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Re:Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations t... by idbehold on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @03:19PM (#13017292)
The OSI should trademark the phrase "open source". License it for anyone claiming their software is open source (as defined by OSI), and send cease and desists to anyone who is using the phase incorrectly.
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Re:Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations t... by icebraining on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @04:44PM (#13017939)
They can't:

We have discovered that there is virtually no chance that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would register the mark "open source"; the mark is too descriptive. Ironically, we were partly a victim of our own success in bringing the `open source' concept into the mainstream.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/06/17/0213251/esr-on-the-...

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Re:Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations t... by mioelnir on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @04:01PM (#13017611)
> ... but "Open Source" is pretty much retconned to be defined by the OSI definition of the term

"Open source" as a term or development methodology is older than both the OSI definition and the Debian manual it is based on.

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