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Why does The Open Group define the term “Open Source” in the license when the definition exists at http://www.opensource.org ?

April 26, 2017define definition exists group http license open source term

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Why does The Open Group define the term “Open Source” in the license when the definition exists at http://www.opensource.org ?

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Our lawyers required us to do this. The intent for the definition is to be inline with the Open Source Definition Version 1.7 (see http://www.opensource.org/osd.html). We’re working on a fix for this and other licensing issues in the next revision of the Motif Public License.