# Require Open Source for Password Managers

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/require-open-source-for-password-managers/12480
**Category:** Site Development
**Created:** 2023-04-24T23:43:32Z
**Posts:** 440
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## Post 94 by @phnx — 2024-11-22T11:22:36Z

At the time your post [here](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/what-does-privacy-guides-see-as-opensource/20230/43) said “Our definition of Open-source follows the [OSI definition](https://opensource.org/osd)” but I see that pull request was recently closed.

If the project wants to evaluate whether the open-source criterion should be changed to source-available, that is one thing, but it makes little sense to change the agreed-upon definition of open-source (not to mention the confusion it would cause). Even projects like FUTO accept the OSI definition of open-source and instead market themselves as source-available or source-first.

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