>> From my small user surveys, "open source" means a lot of things.
Asking people to vote on something does not change the meaning.
The term "open source" referring to the distribution of source code and the rights associated with it have historical origins that are well-documented:
Asking people to vote on something does not change the meaning.
The term "open source" referring to the distribution of source code and the rights associated with it have historical origins that are well-documented:
https://opensource.org/history/
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/The-Brains-Behind-Fr...
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/FREEWARE-PIONEERS-In...
https://linuxgazette.net/issue28/rossum.html
If you want to use some other license and call it "open source", then don't be surprised when people call it out for whatever the differences are.