Can OSI specify that public domain is open source?

[Thorsten Glaser]

John Cowan <cowan <at> mercury.ccil.org> writes:

> Thorsten Glaser scripsit:
> 
> > Hm, so translating into another language is enough? (That is not a big
> > problem in the IT realm…)
> 
> I was thinking of translation by hand from and into a natural language,
> which always involves creativity.

I was thinking manually translating from, say, Perl into C.