Hi Johannes, Johannes Näder <j...@fsfe.org> writes:
> * How would you define "openwashing"? Openwashing could be described as the practise of recycling something as "Free Software" while it is not Free Software. > * What examples of openwashing come to your mind (e.g. from your > country, professional network)? Many LLM pretend to be "open source" while they are not. > * Have you experienced openwashing in your project, organisation, or > environment? How does it affect you and how do you deal with it? Yes, some software vendors pretend to publish "open source" products but key parts of the products are not released under a free license. A more trickier example is a software released under the GNU Affero license with additional terms that make it non free. > * Are you aware of cases where companies have won public tenders by > openwashing? What did they do and what happened? A company won a public tender and promised to release the software as Free Software but never did. > * Do you see openwashing as a major problem for Free Software and the > Free Software community? If so, why? I'd say that open washing was perhaps less a problem 10 years ago, because it was easier to identify then. Nowadays, it's more difficult, with many new non-free licenses. > * Do you know of any resources on openwashing (news articles and > analyses, scientific papers, studies, statistics...)? Nope. > * What would you suggest to face openwashing? FSF and OSI should make a joint effort to become the authority for governments when they try to define "open source" in legal texts. > * Do you have anything else you would like to share on the topic of > openwashing? Openwashing assumes there is a dishonest intention. Sometimes there is no dishonest intention: it is our job to convince these actors that they need to play fair and fix their marketing. Thanks for raising this topic! -- Bastien _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
