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>No it doesn’t. Open community doesn’t have to be open source. Open source doesn’t have to have an open community.

That's in direct contract with Grafana's own messaging. The following is from their OSS marketing page.

>Open Source is at the heart of what we do at Grafana Labs. We believe building software in the open, with thriving communities, helps leave the world a little better than we found it. https://grafana.com/oss/




My reply was replying to:

    Secrets kinda conflict with the whole Open part of OSS.
Please note that the open source definition has no mention of community:

https://opensource.org/osd

As I said, please stop conflating open source software with open communities. They’re part of a thriving and healthy project, but are not the same thing.




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