What some of these folks might actually want their projects to be, is shareware. “Sure, redistribute copies of my project, upload it to all your favorite BBSes, but don’t modify it or sell it — and if you use it for anything serious, send me some money.”
But yeah, if you want to make old nerds cranky at you, just call your source-available shareware project “open source”. You will get flamed like a clueless luser newbie of old, for such is the way of the Net.
What some of these folks might actually want their projects to be, is shareware. “Sure, redistribute copies of my project, upload it to all your favorite BBSes, but don’t modify it or sell it — and if you use it for anything serious, send me some money.”
But yeah, if you want to make old nerds cranky at you, just call your source-available shareware project “open source”. You will get flamed like a clueless luser newbie of old, for such is the way of the Net.