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[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 48 points 3 days ago

But the source code isn't available. The source isn't open. It's not open-source, by definition.

The "spectrum" you refer to us about how free you are to publicly make use of the code, not whether or not you even have the code.

This situation does not fall inside that spectrum.