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'If we want to move into a post-Open Source world, we first and foremost need a new term for what it is we do that captures what we stand for.'

How about 'Paid And Licensed Source' or PALS? Paid as in no more expecting free work, and Licensed in a way that creates procedures which allow writers and maintainers to decide how and by who the source code may be used and procedures that create a way to deny use to anyone who doesn't follow the creator's rules or uses the code in some unforeseen and unethical manner against the wishes of those who created and maintained the source code -