Can OSI specify that public domain is open source?

Karl Fogel kfogel at red-bean.com
Wed Sep 7 19:47:16 UTC 2011


Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa at gmail.com> writes:
>is in the public domain, that thing **is** open source.  ==>
>   that thing **can be used** open source without any restrictions

Yes, I believe these should be equivalent, since "meeting the OSD" is
the same as "meeting the OSD", ahem :-).

-Karl



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