Comment by nailer

20 days ago

That’s not part of the open source definition.

You can claim the open source code isn’t Windows 11, but you can’t complain the code isn’t open source.

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antisol  20 days ago 

  > you can’t complain the code isn’t open source

(unless, of course, the code isn't licensed under an OSI-approved license. Parent didn't actually specify which license the hypothetical not-windows-11 was being "open sourced" under, so we can't actually say for sure whether this hypothetical release is open source or not)

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  • nailer  19 days ago

    Yes that’s correct. I’m imagining it’s the Apache license like the X code, which is indeed an open source license.