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Open washing is a marketing tactic that superficially associates a product with a widely trusted open-source software culture when the product itself does not provide freedoms that define that culture.[1]
Use of a software forge commonly associated with open source software, such as GitHub, GitLab and Codeberg, without publishing the source code there as well; e.g. only publishing software packages for distribution or using its issue tracker to collect bug reports and to publish future development plans
Hijacking websites designed by malicious attackers. (This doesn't have anything to do with developers of the real application)[2]
The pictures shows Top of the BetterDisplay Pro website.BetterDisplay Pro is an application for display settings. Their website design are similar to open source projects' websites.[3] It has GitHub star badge. On their repository no part of source code is available.[4] Download button directly downloads the program from GitHub. There is no indication that the application is close source on the website.
Knockoff - Browser extension that gave interviews regarding its open-source nature and no telemetry data collection. In the same month it released, the project went closed-source and started to collect telemetry data on its users due to auto-updates on browser extensions.
