Comment by PenisBanana

^ is a confused demonstration of my point:

> They are different things. A project can be both; a person can talk about these two aspects of one project.

BTW, your pouring on of qualifiers (elsewhere "weasel words") shows your (correct) lack of conviction:

> the details of definitions, but I think by most people's definitions of 'open source', something that is 'public domain' qualifies as such