March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
12h 45m
English
A couple times now I’ve mentioned that there are over a hundred open source licenses. This, of course, implies that there are criteria for being an open source license and also someone who judges those criteria. Both of these implications are true. The criteria are the aforementioned Open Source Definition (OSD) and the someones who certify whether a license meets those criteria are the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
When an individual or organization has a license that they believe qualifies to be certified as open source, they can submit it to OSI’s license review process.[23] Through public discussion, a community of legal and FOSS experts as well as OSI members and directors of the board examine the ...
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