technically speaking, steem is already open source. Could you adjust a title and explain, that this is about having fully open licence, which will allow creating possible forks without Steemit Inc. written permission.
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It doesn't meet most generally-accepted defintions of open source such as the Open Source Defintion, which require the ability to make modifications and derived works (without needing written permission). Likewise retrictions on usage are generally not considered compatible with open source. I agree the terminology is a bit confusing but just having the source available and allowing certain types of changes or usage (while disallowing or requiring written permission for others) does not make it 'open source' (as most interpret that term).
Agree.
Those are permitted, without written permission, right now, as long as the resulting changes are used on this blockchain. Don't you agree that any improvements to the code should benefit the community that built it?
Open source is not consistent with broad restrictions on usage in that manner. It is a perfect example of the software developer reaching into the business of the person using the software and telling them how to do so. This is precisely the sort of thing that open source (and previously free/libre software) was created to get away from.
Yes in general, but it is debatable whether requiring that is beneficial overall. This debate is long-running in the open source community and I won't repeat it. However, if that is your goal then use something like the AGPL which requires that improvements to the code be given back to the Steem community (which the Steem community can then decide whether or not to adopt) whether or not the person making and using those improvements herself wants to to be part of the Steem community.