[ghaff]

Why do you care? You have a particular vision of how your software should be able to be used. Why do you care if it's "open source" or not? At least with companies, I understand the reason for marketing purposes to be perceived as open source. I'm not sure I understand why an individual maintainer of a project is so desperate to be seen as being open source if it doesn't conform to their vision.

[woodruffw]

Why does anybody care about anything? It’s certainly not life or death for me; I guess I feel like it’s an unnecessary restriction of what “open source” could (and maybe even ought to) mean.

I’m not desperate to be perceived any way in the OSS community; I do plenty of work on projects that satisfy the OSI’s definition, and that will never change. But I also don’t see why the work I do, which I do for the public and not for corporations, which is open in the most literal sense of the word, can’t be rightfully called open source.