OSS Watch and many others do not consider software to be open source unless it is released under an OSI-approved licence, as this provides a quick way for contributors and users to verify that the code is accepted by a large community.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: OSS Watch
  What is open source software?

Sources

• What is open source software? oss-watch.ac.uk OSS Watch via serper

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• Open Source Initiative entity