Debian joins the Open Source Initiative

[Posted March 30, 2012 by corbet]

The Debian project has announced that it is joining the Open Source Initiative as an affiliate. "By becoming an affiliate of the OSI, the Debian Project recognises the OSI's history of efforts towards goals shared by both organisations. However, the Debian Project will not automatically adopt OSI decisions on the acceptability of particular software licenses and will maintain an independent license review process."

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Posted Mar 30, 2012 22:11 UTC (Fri) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link]

I thought the Open Source Initiative was a Debian affiliate? e.g. compare:

http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd

Debian joins the Open Source Initiative

Posted Mar 31, 2012 16:26 UTC (Sat) by RainCT (guest, #57473) [Link]

«The group adopted the Open Source Definition for open-source software, based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines.» --https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative