When looking at scenarios when open source is misrepresented I’ve commonly come across cases where a project downplays the distinction between open source and source-available-style licenses, choosing to advertise the project and/or themselves as open source while licensed in a non-OSD adhering manner.
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Long-time Slashdot reader samj — also a long-time Debian developer — tells us there's some opposition to the newly-released Open Source AI definition. He calls it a "fork" that undermines the original Open Source definition (which was originally derived from Debian's Free Software Guide...
What is the definition of “Open Source”? In future posts, we’ll discuss harmonious paths forward, but for now we have to dig into why OSI’s Open Source Definition created division from the start
You may think that Open Source is about having “access to source code”, whereas Free Software is about freedom. Kids, gather around, let me tell you why that’s wrong.