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How Do You Define Open Source? #LinuxCon

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Sean Michael Kerner
Aug 31, 2012

What is open source?

It’s not as easy a question as you might think. For me, I used to (perhaps naively) believe that any license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is open source. Those licenses are all supposed to conform to the Open Source Definition

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Sean Michael Kerner

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