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It is well known that many of our most excruciating arguments about religion and philosophy are secretly arguments about definitions. With that said, I will add, it is quite a novel thing when the definition is in the foreground and everyone knows that is what they are arguing about.

Dear Reader,

It is well known that many of our most excruciating arguments about religion and philosophy are secretly arguments about definitions. With that said, I will add, it is quite a novel thing when the definition is in the foreground and everyone knows that is what they are arguing about.

A doozy of a definition argument is brewing right now at the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI recently released version one of their definition for "Open Source AI" [1]. At a glance, the definition appears to fall squarely into the basic open source ethos. The user is accorded the right to:

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