[okfn-discuss] Open Software Service Definition

Mon Sep 1 05:46:25 UTC 2008

Dave Crossland dixit:

>the combined licenses list is an unambiguous way of
>describing what is and is not FOSS.

This is wrong: FOSS is much more than the licences whose submitters’
noses are pleasant to the OSI.

>By using boolean AND

I don’t disagree with the AND, I disagree with the OSI.

//mirabilos
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