alt Hacker NewsI’m well aware of the OSD, but we are talking about social norms, not distribution terms.
Direct from the OSI:
> The conferees believed the pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape to release their code illustrated a valuable way to engage with potential software users and developers, and convince them to create and improve source code by participating in an engaged community. The conferees also believed that it would be useful to have a single label that identified this approach and distinguished it from the philosophically- and politically-focused label “free software.” Brainstorming for this new label eventually converged on the term “open source”, originally suggested by Christine Peterson.
— https://opensource.org/about/history-of-the-open-source-init...
“Participating in an engaged community” has been an intrinsic part of Open Source from the beginning.
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It's so fundamental they didn't include it in the definition?
>Open source is not merely a license choice.
Yes it is. The OSD only deals with licenses, therefore whether a software has a "community" has no bearing on whether it's open source.
You're claiming the terms laid out in the OSD were motivated by hopes of cultivating a community, but the reasons behind the document are immaterial to this discussion. It only matters how "open source" is defined, and it's plainly not defined by the presence of any community.
I talked to Simon Phipps about this back in the mid-2000s, so I understand where you're coming from, even if I disagree.
I'm curious whether you classify chromium, AOSP, or sqlite as open source.