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Source is available to the public under their own custom licence, but you cannot use it commercially. Server side is closed. So you just know there is no malware inside and you can propose a bugfix, that's not enough to be open source, yet they misleading call it that.
If you can look at the source code it is open source.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. By definition this is true.
Visible source is still open source , but it isn’t FOSS. Not everything open source is FOSS, but everything FOSS is open source.
Because it's not true: https://opensource.org/osd/
Open Source has most of the same criteria that free software does. Difference in motivation, but same end result criteria.
Source available != Open Source