openwash

Verb

openwash (third-person singular simple present openwashes, present participle openwashing, simple past and past participle openwashed)

1. To market something as open (without proprietary licensing) when it does not meet all the criteria of openness.
   • Over all, one cannot reduce the skills needed for collaboration to skills in joint publishing. On the other hand, the collaborative skills needed should still be knowledge skills, so the aim is to not 'openwash' the knowledge processes.2015, Kristian Møller, Moltke Martiny, “Embodying Investigations of Cerebral Palsy: A Case of Open Cognitive Science”, in Kristian Moltke Martiny, Allan Alfred Birkegaard Hansted, editors, Open Mind...
   • Perhaps we should change tack: instead of talking about opening up education, which is in effect leading to many attempts to outsource education to (quasi-)commercial organizations who “openwash” their activities, shouldn't we aim to develop an educational rendering of openness2018, KU Leuven, Sketching a Place for Education in Times of Learning