[License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Possible alternative was: Re: U.S. Army Research Laboratory Open Source License (ARL OSL) Version 0.4.1

[John Cowan]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:

I'd think the only ones who get to apply the "Open Source" label to
> licenses would be the OSI. Fedora's opinion is that CC-0 meets the OSD.
>

"Open source", whether upper or lower case, is not a protected mark of the
OSI or anyone else.  When someone misuses it, we generally ask them nicely
not to (if we find out about it).  But only "OSI Certified" is or was
protected.

In particular, if for example a license were legally equivalent to the BSD
license, the OSI would probably not certify it, but it would still be an
open source license.

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