I'm pretty sure the reference is just to the "no discrimination against people/groups/fields-of-endeavor" ethos. See OSI's Open Source Definition clauses 5 and

I'm pretty sure the reference is just to the "no discrimination against people/groups/fields-of-endeavor" ethos. See OSI's Open Source Definition clauses 5 and 6. https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd