Thanks for your extensive reply!

I think I see where our misunderstanding comes from. As I understand, you're 
seeing the term "open source" literally from the perspective of an individual 
user. In contrast, my perspective is that of a software maintainer picking a 
license for their publicly visible project.

When it comes to open source _licenses_ , I assume most people would expect 
that they comply with the [open source definition](https://opensource.org/osd) 
of the [Open Source Initiative](https://opensource.org/about). The term "open 
source" in the context of software was hardly used, if at all, before the term 
was agreed upon by a 
[meeting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Origins) in 1998.

Now, if a project picks a license and announces its software as "open source", 
I (and many others) would expect that the license complies with the open source 
definition, even if technically it doesn't have to. If this expectation isn't 
met, this comes across as false advertising. Again, I don't expect this 
thoughtfulness from a regular user of the software, but I usually expect it 
from developers picking a license for their project.

Don't get me wrong, I believe the maintainers of the project have the best 
intentions about this license. My point is only that advertising the project as 
"open source" is quite misleading.

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