> Well, who made them the gatekeeper? OSI bought a domain, they are not open source. The broader community puts a lot of stock in the licence-approval work don

> Well, who made them the gatekeeper? OSI bought a domain, they are not open source. The broader community puts a lot of stock in the licence-approval work done by the OSI, the FSF, and the Debian project. One concrete consequence is that the Debian repositories won't accept your package. (Debian's requirements are much like those of the OSI. In practice, the 3 bodies almost always agree on whether a licence is acceptable.) Less concretely, in terms of adoption and community-building it can be really bad news for a project to be almost truly Free and Open Source.