(4) in OSI bylaws

[chadwhitacre]

From the OSI bylaws:

Within the context of the general purposes stated above, this corporation shall:

1. educate the public about the advantages of open source software;
2. encourage the software community to participate in open source software development;
3. identify how software users’ objectives are best served through open source software;
4. persuade organizations and software authors to distribute source software freely they otherwise would not distribute;
5. provide resources for sharing information about open source software and licenses;
6. assist attorneys to craft open source licenses;
7. manage a program to allow use of one or more marks in association with open source software licenses; and
8. advocate for open source principles.

DOSP/FSL contributes materially towards (4).

[chadwhitacre]

We need a persuasion invasion. 😁 💃

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