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Banning or limiting commercial use is still absolutely open source whether you like it or not. You can see the source, it’s open source. We don’t need everything to be a socialist utopia hippie fest

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You describe source available, not open source.

None of the Creative Commons licenses are particularly great for source code. CC licenses are best suited for photos, videos, audio, etc.

Except for CC0, which is basically just "I declare that this is in the public domain."

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