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Re: Drop DFSG in favour of OSD?



On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 11:55:49AM -0700, Jim Pick wrote:

>Wouldn't it make more sense if we no longer refer to our licensing
>guidelines as the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), and instead
>choose to call them the "Open Source Definition" (OSD)?

No. 'Open <Anything>' has IMO a bad connotation; it sounds like
something proprietary trying to hide behind marketing and/or like 
a pile of bureaucratism.

David

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