When is Open Source not Open Source?

At FOO Camp this weekend, I attended an impromptu gathering convened by Danese Cooper and Michael Tiemann, both of whom are board members of the Open Source Initiative. The topic was the recent attempts by some companies to pass off licenses that do not meet all the requirements of the Open Source Definition as so-called "open source" licenses. Michael first wrote about this here (his post was Slashdotted), and today he followed up with another post. Three cheers for the OSI, for seeing that there is a real danger of the term "open source" being diluted into meaninglessness here, and...
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