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Was very happy to see the rename. I participated in the review threads at the OSI and whilst I have a lot of sympathy for Redis, Mongo and others (I’m a closed source software CEO myself) I felt strongly that open source is not a business model and the definition of open source licenses should be kept strict to the OSD freedoms defined by the OSI.

Well done to Redis for making this clear

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I recently quit the OSI lists, and am glad I did.

I once believed that the OSD did a good job of defining the criteria for open source licenses. That changed by experience of how it's actually applied, how it fails, and how OSI fails to redress.

The more I dug into available mailing list archives, the clearer it became that the problem isn't new. It's not just strong copyleft licenses and the constant stream of human rights licenses. It's the FRAND standards patent problem. It's the license-or-contract confusion.

The situation now, as I see it, is that OSD is largely window dressing for OSI. The OSD is vague and incomplete, but sounds official and technocratic. So it functions as window dressing for the prerogative of those with sway at OSI, to call it as they see it.

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