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Wrong. Open Source does not have to bend the knee to whatever proprietary license you can dream up and shove into your code base.

>Source code: The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. Where some form of a product is not distributed with source code, there must be a well-publicized means of obtaining the source code for no more than a reasonable reproduction cost preferably, downloading via the Internet without charge. The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed. Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator are not allowed.

Does this apply to Linux? Check.

>Derived works: The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.

Does this apply to Linux? Check.

Please visit https://opensource.org/licenses/ to see all of the licenses that are generally agreed upon to be Open Source licenses.



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