[beyond-licensing] quick review of scope, resources, and goals

[Allison Randal]

On 04/04/2016 03:08 PM, Allison Randal wrote:
> The difference between a mailing list and an "official" working group is
> a simple process where we explain to the OSI board what we want to do,
> and the board says "that makes sense". I've put together a first draft
> using the standard template, could you all take a look and see whether
> I've captured the idea behind the group? Feel free to suggest any
> changes or make them directly to the wiki page:
> 
> https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Projects/Beyond+Licensing+Working+Group+Proposal

A note: I have a hope that the final result will be a set of principles
that the FSF could also approve, with a quick substitution of "free
software" for "open source". That might sound radical, until you recall
that the Open Source Definition is just a few quick substitutions on the
Debian Free Software Guidelines.

I don't know that it belongs as a goal in the charter for the working
group, since it would be the FSF's choice whether they want it at all.
But, it does influence the process, and especially makes me glad that we
have participants who self-identify as "free software" as well as
participants who self-identify as "open source".

I'd aim for a third version that substitutes "software freedom", but
grammatically I think we're far less likely to succeed at a 1:1
replacement with that phrase.

Allison