Comment by Zambyte

> This would be equivalent to saying that "Freedom" is defined by the US Constitution or the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms.

The idea of freedom existed before both documents. The idea of Open Source was proposed in 1998 [0], and the OSI was created to define it in the same year [1]. This is not at all equivalent.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-sourc...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative