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Free Software Licenses not approved as Open Sourse License
user name
2006-04-15 00:30:46
Hi,

Is there any free software license as listed on
http://
www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html that have been
rejected
as being OSI certified?

Regards
Nikhil Prabhakar
Free Software Licenses not approved as Open Sourse License
user name
2006-04-20 19:07:12
Hi Nikhil,

Nikhil Prabhakar wrote:
> Is there any free software license as listed on
> http://
www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html that have been
rejected
> as being OSI certified?

I asked a similar question of the list in December of 2004.
See the sole
reply here:

http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:
mss:9257:200412:jkdbdlbojbfdnnmmahmi

My original message seems not to have been archived.

I believe the answer to your question is: no.

However, there are some licenses listed by FSF that have
never been
submitted to OSI for approval, so we don't know for sure
what would
happen if they were. (My guess is that all such licenses
currently
listed there would be approved. And in general, were all
FSF-approved
licenses always submitted to OSI then the FSF-approved
licenses would
most likely become a subset of the OSI-approved licenses.
--But no
promises.)

Brian Carver
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