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It's not technically open source if it's merely visible. It's only technically open source if you explicitly license it to be so.

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Generally speaking, people in group #4 throw an athena license or BSDL on it (though sometimes they'll throw a GPL or something on it instead).

Group #4 accounts for most individual open source projects (though not most code, since big projects tend to be huge); we discount it at our own risk.

Most of the work I do for myself is on Github and it almost never gets a license. The one thing I have added to PyPi got MIT because according to the online license picking tool I used it was the most open.

I actually intend to more widely open source that lib but I have so many projects I'm working on currently it's hard to pick one.

In my corner of the internet most projects use the ISC license that Node sets as a default. I have no idea if that's ever been challenged in court, but at least in theory everything is open unless someone has specifically set it not to be.

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