Free Software Licenses not approved as Open Sourse License

 
Laura Majerus wrote:

> 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.  

We should have this discussion sooner or later, so let's
try sooner.
As everyone knows, FSF is in the process of revising GPL and
LGPL.
Also, everyone knows Richard Stallman's opinion of
"open source"
versus "free software."  I wouldn't dream of
presuming to speak
for Richard and the FSF, but I would be very surprised if
they
were to submit GPL/LGPL 3.0 to OSI for approval as
"open source."

If this assumption is correct, and if OSI strictly enforces
the
stewards-only policy Laura describes, that creates a highly
awkward 
situation where two of the most important licenses 
wouldn't even be evaluated.

Seemingly, something needs to give.

Andy Wilson
Intel Open Source Technology Center

Wilson, Andrew wrote:
I wouldn't dream of presuming to speak
> for Richard and the FSF, but I would be very surprised
if they
> were to submit GPL/LGPL 3.0 to OSI for approval as
"open source."

I had the strange idea to ask. I'll post any response I
receive.

-Matthew Flaschen