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0 pointsinput_sh1y ago0 comments

Open Source Initiative (kind of a de-facto authority on what's open source and what not) is spending a whole lot of time figuring out what it means for an AI system to be open source. In other words, they're basically trying to come up with a new license because the existing ones can't easily apply.

I believe this is the current draft: https://opensource.org/deepdive/drafts/the-open-source-ai-de...

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downWidOutaFite1y ago

OSI made themselves the authority because they hated Richard Stallman and his Free Software movement. It's just marketing.

gowld1y ago

RMS has no interest in governing Open Source, so your comment bears no particular relevance.

RMS is an advocate for Free Software. Free Software generally implies Open Source, but not the converse.

RMS considers openness of source to be a separate category from the freeness of software. "Free software is a political movement; open source is a development model."

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html

ab5tract1y ago

Are you really pretending that OSI and the open source label itself wasn’t a reactionary movement that vilified free software principles in hopes of gaining corporate traction?

Most of us who were there remember it differently. True open source advocates will find little to refute in what I’ve said.

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dogleash1y ago

Didn't the Open Source Definition start as the DFSG? You telling me Debian hates the Free Software movement? Unless you define "hating Free Software" as "not banning the BSD license", then I'll have to disagree.

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