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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Open-source preserves these freedoms. Source-available is the term for software that doesn't respect user freedoms, but allows to access the source code.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Indeed, most open source software is available under licenses like GPL, which enforces the preservation of those freedoms.