Use of OGL for code?

[garethr]

When I reviewed this as part of a digital service assessment it had an MIT license (if memory services). I see that has been removed in place of the OGL.

Is OGL compatible with other open source licenses?

I can't find any guidance, advice or other discussions - which would suggest this could create a degree of uncertainty. At @alphagov we explicitly made the decision to use a well understood license for code (normally MIT) and retain OGL for content.

Do you have any pointers to evidence that OGL is open source compatible? Or a rationale for making this decision?

[ashb]

Open source license is a bit of a loosely defined term, but going to this definition http://opensource.org/osd then yes, the OGL is broadly compatible.

We talked about this internally before making the switch and it meets all 10 points defined there, with the possible exception of requiring access to un-obfuscated source (but then the MIT doesn't have meet this either) and it felt more appropriate to us to use this license for a stand alone government project than MIT