What is an "indie"?

[Wright]

CGI-Quality said:

Wright said:

CGI-Quality said:
It isn't very different from a commercial game. We just aren't bound by a publisher, thus, offered more freedom to create what we want.

What if your team and you design your game 100% and then a publisher is interested in it and want to publish it? The game stops being "indie game" to become just "game"?

It's Indie developed, but with a publisher, it technically becomes commercial. They take care of all of the marketing and can even force changes upon the project. In those cases, since the dev is receiving financial royalties, complaints are minimal. 

A game without development isn't a game. So we can conclude that in this case your game is indie. Whether it's getting published or not, (Okay, maybe the forcing changes do change the game) the game itself is indie.

The fact that it is published by a major company means nothing to the term.