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Re:100% Open Source CS:Go by mrob on Saturday June 03, 2023 @12:15PM (#36177872)
The middle ground is "source available", although that usually means source made available by the copyright holder under terms that don't meet the Open Source/Free Software definitions. I think just "leaked source" is the best terminology here.
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Re:100% Open Source CS:Go by antris on Saturday June 03, 2023 @12:17PM (#36177889)
Ah, found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software

I see, never heard of that term. Still wish there was a term that encompassed all software that has publically available source code. I thought "open source" was it. The literal meaning of the term aligns so beautifully with it.

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Re:100% Open Source CS:Go by ZoomZoomZoom on Saturday June 03, 2023 @12:58PM (#36178283)
Source Available is the worst of both, unless there's a way to reproducibly build the source and check the results against the shipped product. False sense of security and no legal ways to use the code.
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