License approval differences of the FSF and the OSI

#opensource

Are there actually significant distinctions between the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the Open Source Initiative (OSI) in terms of the licenses they approve?

As I’ve not seen anyone do a satisfactory page about this I felt it was time I tried to tackle the topic. At this point I won't claim it to be "comprehensive" but I hope at least it makes a good enough start.

Much as I don't like when people post here on Dev with just a link to the whole article being somewhere else, I also don't want to maintain two copies while I might still be making minor corrections.

So with that apology here is a link to the full article:

How many and of what nature are the license approval differences of the FSF and the OSI ?

There are certainly other things to cover, presumably in a later posting. At the least, an updated and thorough listing from both organisations and cross-match would seem a next step. Also I suspect there are licenses that either organisation has judged, about which the other has given no public opinion.

Oh, and to not tease, in short my finding was that: there are not significant distinctions between the FSF and OSI approvals.

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