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Good&Evil is a classic altrock album by Tally Hall, and now, for something completely different, JSON
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All extensions are technically open source because they “compile” to JavaScript. Most, including the one I use, don’t bother obfuscating
Open source is a license. What you're referring to is "source-available." You can't legally fork, redistribute, or contribute to it.
I think you got that one wrong.
Open source is not a license. Open source literally just means that the source is openly available. It does not include the right for you to reuse or change any of the source.
That's why most of the time, people are talking about "Free Open Source Software" (FOSS) when they think of openly licensed source code.
That's why you can publish your project on e.g. Github (= open source) but if you don't add a license statement, your work is still protected by an "all rights reserved copyright". (= not free)
Anyhow, I would not necessarily deem a project OSS, just because the used language is readable by default. To me, OSS needs at least the developers intention to make it openly available.
While I agree with you , the Open Software Initiative doesn't :
So according to the OSI's definition of open source , a project being public on github , but with out a license or with a license which does not comply with the requirements set out by the OSI