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Yes, they do! They are the ones that put together the OSD (https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd) which they derived from the DGSL. No one else
by BFatts 8y ago
Yes, they do! They are the ones that put together the OSD (https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd) which they derived from the DGSL. No one else has defined open source, not even Richard M. Stallman. His definition is for "Free Software", not "Open Source".
So when it comes to who owns the definition, the definitive answer is the OSI. Anything else is just subjective opinions.
You must not work. Because businesses that do REAL BUSINESS and use Open Source are happy that there is the OSD and approved OSI licenses. That way, we can make real, LEGAL decisions. For individual developers, they might have a different idea of what the definition is, but the actual reference to what defines it is at: https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd
Reading that will clarify what open source is and isn't. Anything else is just "free software" and should hunt down the FSF for licenses and such. RMS has a very different opinion on software that DOES NOT WORK for large corporations.
- zzzcpan 8y agoOSD is said subjective opinion, not a universally agreed upon definition.
- jazzyjackson 8y agoI think what I'm seeing over and over in this thread is people talking past each other because the grandparent shouldn't have assumed we were all working in the same context. I agree, in the legal context of business decisions, OSI has a very specific claim to the term 'open source' and declaring that mongoDB "IS NOT OPEN SOURCE" is a warning directed towards people making business judgements around legal risk. To everyone else, we use the term 'open source' because we heard someone else say it, and when we write software we say 'oh it will be open source' without getting into the nitty gritty of what license it will use and whether that's OSI approved.
- zzzcpan 8y ago> in the legal context of business decisions, OSI has a very specific claim But it doesn't. In the legal context of business decisions conformance to an OSI definition of "Open Source" means exactly nothing and OSI-certified "Open Source" even less than nothing. It doesn't help you with anything and doesn't protect you from anything.