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by thayne 1435 days ago
> Public Law 115-232 defines OSS defines OSS as “software for which the human-readable source code is available for use, study, re-use, modification, enhancement, and re-distribution by the users of such software

> The following organizations examine licenses; licenses should pass at least the first two industry review processes, and preferably all of them, else they have a greatly heightened risk of not being an open source software license

The first two are OSI and FSF.

Some other questions also allude to not including more restrictive "source available" licenses, presumably including commons clause, as open source.