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Only because it isn't trademarked. Anyone who has the slightest shred of respect for open source community uses the term properly. They coined the term. As for
by benatkin 8y ago
Only because it isn't trademarked. Anyone who has the slightest shred of respect for open source community uses the term properly. They coined the term.
As for SQLite, it's compatible with OSI licenses. It has been folded into a larger work that's licensed under an OSI approved license countless times. There are some projects that might throw around the term public domain but I'd have to examine the details to see if it's ready to be used as part of an open source project.
- ternaryoperator 8y ago>They coined the term. The term was coined by Christine Peterson who was not part of OSI, AFAIK. [1] [1] https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...
- benatkin 8y agoI wasn't using the terms "open source community" and OSI interchangeably.