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That’s what I used to think, but now more companies use “open” with non-OSI licenses and they aren’t run out of town and told STFU.

Personally, any project using “open” in the name that’s not OSI, I pretty much ignore. But it seems to be growing (eg, “open core”, “openai”, stuff like this taking about open with non-open licenses).

It’s getting hard to filter out. One of the benefits I think to CCn is that it clearly lets users know what is and is not allowed. Having OSIn might help with people who don’t read licenses for fun.



OpenAI is a good example, see this comment from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25820080




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