Stream GSOS is a specification format for operations and calculi on infinite
sequences. The notion of bisimilarity provides a canonical proof technique for
equivalence of closed terms in such specifications. In this paper, we focus on
open terms, which may contain variables, and which are equivalent whenever they
denote the same stream for every possible instantiation of the variables. Our
main contribution is to capture equivalence of open terms as bisimilarity on
certain Mealy machines, providing a concrete proof technique. Moreover, we
introduce an enhancement of this technique, called bisimulation up-to
substitutions, and show how to combine it with other up-to techniques to obtain
a powerful method for proving equivalence of open terms