OSD

Definitions

1. Short for the Open Source Definition, the criteria used to determine whether a software license qualifies as open source. In licensing culture, OSD compliance is a key distinction between truly open licenses and source-available terms that keep important restrictions.

   In plain English: Short for the Open Source Definition.

   Example: "The maintainers argued that the new terms were not OSD-compliant, so calling the release open source would have been misleading."

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