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Open Source Initiative

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(OSI) An organisation dedicated to managing and promoting the Open Source Definition for the good of the community.

http://opensource.org/.
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Open Source Initiative

A non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting open source software. The OSI logo on software certifies that it is distributed under one of several approved licenses. For more information, visit www.opensource.org. See open source and Open Source Definition.


An Approved License
This logo can be used if software is distributed under one of several licenses approved by the Open Source Initiative.
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