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> but not de jure, for you pedants out there This means that the term "open source" is not legally defined (and not recognized by lawyer / judges) [and the OSD

• mindcrime 3y ago
  Yes, "de jure" more or less translates to "by law", and "de facto" is something like "by practice" or "by convention". So the Open Source Initiative folks have no legal basis to enforce use of their definition, but in practice it's so widely used and acknowledged that for all practical purposes it is the definition.