I would also add that OSI approval creates trust. OSI approval assures
those who may not have the legal understanding or resources that the
software they are reviewing affords all of the opportunities of the OSD.
It is much easier for organizations to check if some software is open
source,
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Patrick Masson mas...@opensource.org
wrote:
I would also add that OSI approval creates trust. OSI approval assures
those who may not have the legal understanding or resources that the
software they are reviewing affords all of the opportunities of the OSD.
On 05/26/2015 02:54 PM, Brian J. Fox wrote:
It *is* right, by the definition that we’re using for Open Source.
It is very close to right. A license is open source if it complies with
the Open Source Definition. A license might be open source, but not yet
reviewed the by OSI. We use the set of
On May 27, 2015, at 11:53 AM, Patrick Masson mas...@opensource.org wrote:
I would also add that OSI approval creates trust.
I'd say more that trust. Let's be blunt: The legal issues related
to using, consuming and/or leveraging open source are legend.
Use of a non OSI-approved open source
It *is* right, by the definition that we’re using for Open Source.
On May 26, 2015, at 2:44 PM, Grahame Grieve
grah...@healthintersections.com.au wrote:
ALL OSI-approved licenses are open source. Other licenses are not
I don't think that the last bit is right.
other licenses cannot be
well, there might be a scope issue here.
for a particular purpose, non OSI approved licenses are not considered
open source'
But perhaps that's implicit in the context and only confusing for me
because you quoted a piece out of context - that's what Brian implies.
Grahame
On Wed, May 27, 2015
Thank you Allison and Grahame, I'll have to be more precise next time. You
can help me. What would you suggest we say when the OSET Foundation proposes
a voting or election system with a non-OSI-approved open source license
called OPL:
Larry,
Thanks for pinging us. After a few informal discussions folks on the
Board are comfortable with that last sentence.
As you know I sent off a note to Mr. Fried with two other issues:
1. Page one provides definitions including, Open source: A term
signifying the source
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