[CAVO] [License-discuss] SF - LAFCO open source voting draft

Allison Randal allison at opensource.org
Tue May 26 22:44:06 UTC 2015


On 05/26/2015 02:44 PM, Grahame Grieve 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 known to be" or "other licenses may not be" -
> but you can't outright claim that just because OSI has not approved a
> license, it's *not* open source

Yes, good clarification. That's certainly not what we meant to imply.
Mainly we were focused on the fact that the set of open source licenses
includes more than just the GPL.

Allison



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