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They're in no way, shape, or form official and they didn't come up with the term open source.

Like I said above, they're as official as the cheese initiative I just made up.

No government has endorsed them, and open source is not a protected name in any country I am aware of.

They're just some arrogant American organisation that expects the entire world to bend to their whim, as usual.



Many countries have false advertisement laws, so if you say something is open source, it does mean various things. So, if you sell the product for free, then of that free product the source has to be practically available.




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