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The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) (and their "Social Contract" with the Free Software Community for that matter) [1] are very short documents, and I re

The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) (and their "Social Contract" with the Free Software Community for that matter) [1] are very short documents, and I recommend anyone reading them. Created in 1997, and only slightly changed once in 2004, they are a staple of free and open source software. [1] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

est31 7y ago
IIRC the OSI criteria were even modeled after the DFSG. OSI was basically a project to decide which license is open source outside of a Debian context.
- kick 7y ago
  Perens wrote both, so yeah, though OSI was just to make free software more corporate-friendly.