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by rat9988 1079 days ago
"This is the commonly accepted definition of open source and there’s very few who would consider your custom license open source."

You might think so but I disagree.

1 comments

Yes, it’s a free country. That’s why we have consensus.

1000 people misusing the term means the term changes. 1 person misusing the term is just a jerk.

I’m always suspicious when people overloading a term are all doing it for personal benefit (ie, promoting their product).

I think consensus is around OSI now, but it could change. I might not be right in the future, but I think I’m right now.