Fair question :-) And the answer is no, you would not need OSI's permission to call your project open source -- because you'd be using the MIT license which has

Fair question :-) And the answer is no, you would not need OSI's permission to call your project open source -- because you'd be using the MIT license which has been reviewed and approved by the OSI. You can find the list of approved licenses, along with information about the review and approval process, over at https://opensource.org/licenses https://opensource.org/licenses