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OSI’s license might not be copyleft per se, but it does in fact limit what the redistribution license can do, and requires the source to stay “open”.

"OSI's license"? Which one? There's no requirement for the license to require the source to "stay open" for it to be called Open Source, and you have already linked to the page that confirms that.

Public domain does not require the redistribution license to remain open.

Neither do some Open Source licenses, like MIT, which I already mentioned above. Which is even clearly stated by the page you just linked:

Most copyleft licenses are Open Source, but not all Open Source licenses are copyleft. When an Open Source license is not copyleft, that means software released under that license can be used as part of programs distributed under other licenses, including proprietary (non-open-source) licenses. For example, the BSD license is a non-copyleft Open Source license. Such licenses are usually called either "non-copyleft" or "permissive" open source licenses
OSI is very clear about this

It sure is, I don't know why you choose to not read what they write. Heck, you've even got links to 0BSD and MIT-0 licenses earlier, which are recognized as Open Source licenses and which you can both read in their entirety in 3 minutes and that would be enough for you to realize that you're wrong.

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