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by 8note 701 days ago
Isn't the MIT license the generally accepted "open source" license? It's a community owned term, not OSI owned
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MIT is a permissive open source license, not the open source license.
There are more licenses than just MIT that are "open source". GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, some of the Creative Commons licenses, etc. MIT has become the defacto default though

https://opensource.org/license (linking to OSI for the list because it's convenient, not because they get to decide)