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Free Software Licenses not approved as Open Sourse License
user name
2006-04-20 20:37:52
Recently, someone had asked whether interested parties who
are not
stewards of the license can submit licenses for approval by
OSI and the
answer at the time was "no."  OSI only approves
licenses that are
submitted for approval by their stewards.  

Laura 

>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.)
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Free Software Licenses not approved as Open Sourse License
user name
2006-04-25 04:43:10
Laura Majerus writes:
 > Recently, someone had asked whether interested parties
who are not
 > stewards of the license can submit licenses for
approval by OSI and the
 > answer at the time was "no."  OSI only
approves licenses that are
 > submitted for approval by their stewards.  

I don't think that's quite the case.  We've had people
submit licenses
by non-stewards.  The problem in that case is that there is
no
consultation; no room for a meeting of the minds.  The
license can
only be approved on a straight yes or no basis.  Contrast
that with
how the NOSA and CDDL were created.  They came to us and
said "So,
whaddaya think of this license?"  We told them how we
thought the
community in general and you guys in specific would feel
about it, and
they made changes to the license in response.  That doesn't
happen
when the license isn't submitted by a steward, and it's
painful.

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