Questions tagged [osi]
For questions about the Open Source Initiative and its relationship to free and open projects.
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Licence that allows charging for distribution
I want to ask if a. a licence with the following requirements exists and b. if such a licence would be open source (OSI and/or SFS): The licence should allow the user a similar level of freedom as a ...
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What public domain declarations with fall back permissive licenses are approved by both the FSF and OSI?
I was looking into public domain declarations with fall back permissive licenses (for brevity, I am going to call this concept a "public domain license") recently. For those unaware, it is ...
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What does the non-reusable category on OSI mean?
https://opensource.org/licenses can list their licenses by category. There is one category: NON-REUSABLE that, to me, sounds a bit off for OSI licenses. What does this category categorize for the OSI ...
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Has the FSF ever commented on the SSPL?
When MongoDB submitted the Server Side Public License to the OSI for approval, the OSI has publicly announced that they do not consider it an open-source license. Has the FSF (or, if relevant, a ...
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Does a software under one of the OSI-approved licenses allow anybody to use/run it for any purpose?
OSI (Open Source Initiative) says that: Open source software is made by many people and distributed under an OSD-compliant license which grants all the rights to use, study, change, and share the ...
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What is coherent open source?
What is "coherent" open source? How is it different from other forms of open source?
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How to license scientific software to be open while protecting against misuse?
Note: This question is a revision of an earlier question, which MadHatter suggested should be revised into a new more specific question. Note that there is a lot of similarity between the questions; ...
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What if my license is not approved by OSI or FSF?
For some reasons I will be using CC BY NC SA license thorough out my project/program, and I know that this license is not approved by OSI or FSF because it have NC ( i.e. non-commercial) clause in it. ...
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Understanding "License Must Not Be Specific to a Product" OSS Guidelines
The copy reads: The rights attached to the program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution. If the program is extracted from that distribution and used ...
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SSPL and the Open Source Definition
MongoDB has decided to change the licensing of MongoDB Community Server, seemingly to prevent businesses from monetizing on their product without giving anything back: https://www.mongodb.com/press/...
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Practical steps to licence Free software and Open Source Projects [closed]
Several discussions have supported the subject of a software license and the majority are limited to offer explanations or definitions (GNU GPL, EULA, BSD License ... etc) without addressing the ...
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Is there a license that restricts interpretation of the source except to documentation?
I was reading an issue on python-patterns' GitHub repo. Where it was asked Really? I mean, these are simple snippets showing design patterns for learning purposes, none of this code is usable as it ...
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OSI approved License similar to CC BY-SA 4.0
What's the most recommended OSI approved license (here's the list) closest to our current license is Creative Commonns Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International? Also, why aren't the Creative Commons ...
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What significance & advantages does the OSI say about open source?
At the Philosophy of the GNU Project, there is one page Why we must insist on free software which states the importance/significance and advantages of free software. So, I want to know what OSI ...
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What does the Open Source Initiative say about proprietary software?
I found that FSF considers proprietary software to be unethical (bold emphasis mine): Proprietary Software Is Often Malware Proprietary software, also called nonfree software, means software ...
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