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>From: Craig Muth  <craig.mu at gmail.com>
>If we're talking about projects whose source is open - for
>downloading, modifying, redistributing, and selling - and assuming
>they get their license to reasonably conform to the OSD, who are
>we to say it's not open source?

We are the Open Source Initiative.  We created the term, we created the goodwill behind the term, and it is very much our job to say what is and what is not Open Source.

That's who we are.