he/she actually can, if he/she chooses to... some licenses discriminate against people that don't have money for buying them, so there should be nothing unfair about this...
He said he would be 'open sourcing' it. To me this means, making the source available. I suspect OP doesn't care about strict definitions of what does and doesn't constitute open source..
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You can't discriminate against any fields of endeavor[0] if you wish for your software to be under any OSI approved open source license.
[0] https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
he/she actually can, if he/she chooses to... some licenses discriminate against people that don't have money for buying them, so there should be nothing unfair about this...
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Actually, he did.
He said he would be 'open sourcing' it. To me this means, making the source available. I suspect OP doesn't care about strict definitions of what does and doesn't constitute open source..
"Shared source" is a notion which Microsoft termed to refer to make the source code available without the software being open source.