Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
by Robotbeat on Thursday March 18, 2021 @08:48PM
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Sure, but I think companies are actually abusing the common definition of open source (which roughly has been the OSI one) by calling their source-available (but private licensed) stuff “open source.”
Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
by quadrangle on Friday March 19, 2021 @01:09AM
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> Which is why you should call them "OSI Licenses" if you are referring to OSI licenses.
1. They aren't written by or copyright or anything to the OSI. They aren't "OSI Licenses" they are "OSI-approved licenses"
2. The Open Source Definition as clearly defined by OSI (and accepted as the only consensus definition in the world) does not include OSI-approved as a factor. So, a license can be Open Source without the OSI having done the active approval to validate that they see it as Open Source.
Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
by Thorrez on Friday March 19, 2021 @01:34AM
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OSI-aligned might be a better term.
Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
by diffeomorphism on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:58AM
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Which is why I am using "open source". You are free to use "non-OSI source" for your stuff.
The only thing you are saying is that "open source" sounds nicer and you want it for your term instead. Too late.
Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
by kube-system on Friday March 19, 2021 @11:04AM
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"Open source" was used to refer to source-available material for decades before it ever OSI ever existed. This is the reason why OSI can't get a trademark on the term -- UTPTO won't let you trademark a generally descriptive term already in use.
Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
by diffeomorphism on Friday March 19, 2021 @01:04PM
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That's nice, but just says that it used to mean something else and you are bitter about it.
Which is why you should call them "OSI Licenses" if you are referring to OSI licenses.
> let's use theirs and move on to more substantial topics.
This just isn't how English works. It isn't prescriptive. English is descriptive by nature and permits multiple uses, which have been around before OSI ever existed and are still valid.