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If the license doesn't meet the OSD and does not protect four freedoms, then it is not open-source.
It is by FUTO's definition.
Jokes aside, I find that attitude not very healthy. Whether you want to call it open source or not, as I said, it's far from proprietary, and certainly more than just source available. Dismissing it for that reason is quite unreasonable.
Calling a source-available license "not proprietary", this is what not very healthy.
"Source-first" or "fair code" are just a fancy ways to say "proprietary".