Even arduino is not completely open source. 
What is happening?
I just hope Arduino will keep releasing the schematics.
PS: have they released the r4 Wi-Fi’s PCB layout?
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It is available from the "Resources" section of the board's documentation page as usual. The article even included a link to it:
https://docs.arduino.cc/hardware/uno-r4-wifi#resources
It is most convenient to click the "Interactive Viewer" for quick access to viewing the layout, but you can also click the CAD Files download link to download the files to your PC.
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Will there be an open coffin funeral?
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Hmm. That might not be good for the environment.
May contain some lead.
Open Source does work in an ideal world.
But since it is too easy to remove the (free) copyright notice and steal the work and put it in a closed source product, I can not blame the companies that are moving away from open source.
Even on this forum, there is little respect for the (free) copyright notice. It is often removed. Then others take that code and put their own copyright above it, as if they wrote it themself.
On the other hand, if a user of a product is forced to use the cloud and is forced to give up the rights of the contents that is uploaded, that is so nasty, we should avoid such products.
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What makes you say that?
An annoying thing I have seen is companies claiming "open hardware" - but they keep the essential firmware to make that hardware do anything closed.
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Arduino Pro boards?
Yes. SparkFun is doing that.
For the avoidance of doubt, I don't have any objection to closed hardware or software.
But I do object to companies claiming to be "Open", but not really being open.
Arduino firmware?
Oe is this B&M, every perceived industry grievance pile-on and wake?
I went to the Sparkfun site and used the find tool to search for the words open source.
Maybe you can tell me where they say that Sparkfun is Open?
Alas Arduino! We hardly knew ye!
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I hope not.
They used the words Open Source. Tell them what products they make or sell that you can't get info on and see what they say? They have a forum?
The situation is clearly explained in the "Sparkfun" section of the article:
Please note this part:
SparkFun’s CTO informed me the Open-source certification and open-source hardware logo on the product for sale was in error and being corrected. Unknown if there is any GPL software in the closed-source binary, an NDA would be needed to review. I did ask if there was any open-source software in the closed-source binary but did not get a reply. A user would need to sign a NDA to know more about the software for the SparkFun DataLogger IoT – 9DoF.
Update: July 13, 9:09am ET – Revoking Certification for US002346 – July 13, 2023 “(SparkFun) asked that the certification be reversed due to accidental filing.”
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I've never bought from them. Likely I never will.
Before anyone judges SparkFun based purely on what was likely an honest mistake (which they have admitted and taken measures to correct), or on their decision to keep one firmware project proprietary, you might want to consider their many significant contributions to the open source hardware movement:
https://github.com/orgs/sparkfun/repositories?type=source
(yes, that is 1114 repositories!)
Since they are so often purchased as clones, some here may not be aware that SparkFun is the creator of two of the most popular fully open source boards used by the Arduino community: the Pro Mini and the Pro Micro.
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Oh. I though that was a collaboration between Adafruit and Arduino.
Just wondering but does anyone have good license sources?
Which licenses qualify as open source?