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tannhaeuser on Oct 16, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: MongoDB switches up its open source license

You may be talking past another. I guess what GP was asking is whether OSI has a trademark, copyright, or something else for the term "open source"? The term "open source" has been generically used for much longer than OSI's existence.

icebraining on Oct 16, 2018 [–]

The term "open source" has been generically used for much longer than OSI's existence.

I've seen this claim before, but could never find any evidence of it actually being applied to software before OSI came around.

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