Re: Open Software Service Definition

2008/9/2 Thorsten Glaser <tg@...>:
> Dave Crossland dixit:
>
>>While I am no fan of the OSI, I think it is fair to say that they are
>>very influential and most people refer to FOSS as OS.
>
> Sure, but even the OSI themselves say that being OSI approved is only
> a subclass of being OSD compliant Open Source (tm) software. They
> admit to willingly not approve Open Source (tm) licences.

Referring to approved license lists is unambiguous. When writing a
definition that depends on other definitions, it is good to limit
ambiguity. So I think the OKFN's Service Definition ought to refer to
license lists rather than other definitions.

"Liberal input, conservative output" and all that.